— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
(Source: carolsworld)
"You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."
"It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one."
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one."
— Opening line of Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
(Source: sirterrypratchett)
"Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded ‘Born to Lurk’, these two would have been on the album cover."
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
(Source: barrichello)
"The Antichrist—how many nipples has he?"
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
(Source: monocled--misanthrope)
"Young women should not go alone on dark nights, even in Oxfordshire. But any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put little faith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for the foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt."
— Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (via sigewif)
"There was nowhere that he was a stranger, and there was no getting away from him. He was doing what he did best, and what he was doing was what he was.
He was not waiting. He was working."
He was not waiting. He was working."
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (via andriani)
"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (via monkeyswearingpants)
"There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath astink, while in the distance their owners witter, “He’s an old soppy really, just poke him if he’s a nuisance,” and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker…"
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (via liquidnight)
"Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn’t get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell."
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (via imnotyetdead)
(Source: theprincessentropy)
