"He fumbled under his robe and produced something that looked, to Fergmen’s eye, very much like a torture instrument. This must have communicated itself to Urn, who said very slowly and kindly: ‘This is an ad-just-ab-ble span-ner.’
‘Yes?’
‘It’s for twisting nuts off.’
Fergmen nodded miserably."
An astute judge of human nature ain't he?
"And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
Vorbis loved knowing that. A man who knew that, knew everything he needed to know about people." #SmallGods#terrypratchett#theturtlemoves#discworldquotes@bookstodon#GNUPterry#reading#books#quotes