Mort:
Overview
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.
[p. 12]
'Does he have people put to death?' said Mort.
SOMETIMES. THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO, WHEN YOU'RE A KING.
[p. 46]
He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.
[p. 97]
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it.
[p. 128]
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns on it.
[p. 129]
'Everything will be all right. From History's point of view, that is. There really isn't any other.'
[p. 151, Cutwell]
'Pardon me for living, I'm sure.'
NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.
[p. 210]
'You know the worst of it?' said Rincewind.
'Oook?'
'I don't even remember walking under a mirror.'
[p. 224]
He remembered the knowledge. He remembered feeling his mind as cold as ice and limitless as the night sky. He remembered being summoned into reluctant existence at the moment the first creature lived, in the certain knowledge that he would outlive life until the last being in the universe passed to its reward, when it would be his job, figuratively speaking, to put the chairs on the tables and turn all the lights off.
He remembered the loneliness.
[p. 240]
NO. I CANNOT BE BIDDEN. I CANNOT BE FORCED. I WILL DO ONLY THAT WHICH I KNOW TO BE RIGHT.
[p. 265]