On Nov 3, 10:53 pm, Bob Larter <bobbylar
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rozi wrote:
> >
http://pregonaut.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/the-turtle-moves/ > > (referred over from offbeatbride's page on the author's steampunk
> > wedding:
http://offbeatbride.com/2007/12/a-steampunk-wedding... I
> > want to marry this woman! I'm sure her husband wouldn't mind ;) )
> > This lady has done what I should have done and come up with an idea
> > for a Discworld themed nursery! When we finally move into our own
> > house, I'm going to steal her idea and turn our daughter's room into a
> > mural of 'Where's My Cow?'
> > Also, does anyone have any suggestions for Discworld themed wedding
> > vows? I know Pterrry's hardly a soppy romantic (which is one of many
> > reasons why I love him) but I would like to get romantic/wedding
> > related Discworld quotes in there somewhere!
> > The only one I can think of is 'Marriage is two people who swear it's
> > the other one who snores.'
> Maybe you could borrow bits from Sam & Sybil's nuptials.
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> W
> . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because
> \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
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The tricky bit might be finding the proper sort of pipe organ and the
Librarian who is ape enough to play it...
Seriously, though, (okay, slightly more seriously...), there are quite
a few nice love-related lines sprinkled in the various books. Not sure
how adaptable they are to actual vows, though. Some might make for
quite funny/touching readings. I'm just about to go to bed, so I'm
having trouble dredging them up from memory. A little Google work
turned up these.
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
- Wyrd Sisters
"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear
that only the other one snores."
— The Fifth Elephant
"And what would humans be without love?"
"Rare," said Death."
— Sourcery
Vimes stared at the thing in his hand. It was a cigar case, slim and
slightly curved.
He fumbled it open and read: To Sam with love from your Sybil.
The world moved. Vimes still felt like a drifting ship. But at the end
of the tether there was now the tug of the anchor, pulling the ship
around so that it faced the current. - Night Watch
Oddly, some of the ones that aren't really about love/marriage/romance
in the books might be more adaptable.
The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a
number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into
a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and
each of them... - Truckers
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside
that can hardly be contained. - A Hat Full Of Sky
Rereading the Magrat/Verence material might toss up a few more
possibilities.
And I have a nagging half-memory of someone posting about a book
signing/reading by Terry where he was asked by one of the attendees if
Sam really loved Sybil, and after expressing surprise, he provided a
lovely quote on marriage, but I can't find it at the moment. I believe
I ran across it when trawling through old newsgroup postings through
Google Groups, but can't swear to that.
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