Specifically, I thought of the time in 4th grade when Lindsay announced in front of the whole gym class that she wouldn't have Vicky on her dodgeball team. I didn't even think of my family, or the way the morning light turns the walls in my bedroom the color of cream, or the way the azaleas outside of my window smell in July, a mixture of honey and cinnamon. I didn't think of all the outrageous things I'd done with my friends. The things I wanted to remember the things I wanted to be remembered for.īut before I died I didn't think of Rob, or any other guy. The truth is, though, I wouldn't have minded reliving my greatest hits: when Rob Cokran and I first hooked up in the middle of the dance floor at homecoming, so everyone saw and knew we were together when Lindsay, Elody, Ally and I got drunk and tried to make snow angels in May, leaving person-sized imprints in Ally's lawn my sweet sixteenth party, when we set out a hundred tea lights and we all danced on the table in the backyard the time Lindsay and I pranked Clara Seuse on Halloween, got chased down by the cops, and laughed so hard we almost threw up. I'd be happy to forget all of fifth grade, for example (the glasses-and-pink-braces period), and does anybody want to relive the first day of middle school? Add in all of the boring family vacations, pointless algebra classes, period cramps and bad kisses I barely lived through the first time around. Some things are better left buried and forgotten, as my mom would say. To be honest, I'd always thought the whole final-moment, mental life-scan-thing sounded pretty awful. “Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account.They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me. “Life doesn’t happen in chapter – at least, not regular ones.” – explaining in a 2008 interview why Discworld books don’t have chapters
#Whne your life flashes before your eyes full#
“It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” – A Hat Full of Sky (2004) Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – A Hat Full of Sky (2004) And the people there see you differently, too. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back.
“So much universe, and so little time.” – The Last Hero (2001) “Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.” – foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy by David Pringle (1998) “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” – foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy by David Pringle (1998) That is true, it’s called Life.” – The Last Continent (1998) “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That’s what people remember.” – Lords and Ladies (1992) “If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Reaper Man (1991) “Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.” – Good Omens (1990)
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” – Truckers (1990) “Death isn’t cruel, merely terribly, terribly good at his job.” – Sourcery (1988) “The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.” – Equal Rites (1987) “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” – The Light Fantastic (1986) As the world mourns the loss of fantasy author Terry Pratchett, who died Thursday at the age of 66 after a battle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, here are some of his witty and memorable quotes.
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