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[terrypratchettestate]

A message from Rob Wilkins.

Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call.

From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal?

But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true. For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come.

So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us.

Rob Wilkins

[terrypratchettappreciation]

10 years on...

This photo is so him. He was my author. He was my friend. Like all of you, I miss him everyday. Thank you for keeping the ripples going.

[juliaanoia]

Thinking about Terry Pratchett today.

Thinking about Terry Pratchett and how his words shaped my mind and soul in so many ways.

Isn't it wild and heartbreaking and beautiful how he left us this tearful goodbye within Shepherd's Crown? By mourning one of his characters, alongside the others, we get to mourn for him and share our grief when we can't do so with people around us. I share my grief today with Tiffany Aching and Nanny Ogg and Mustrum Ridcully and all the others, bemourning a beloved soul who shaped the very fabric of our world. Every year, for ten years now, I mourn for Terry Pratchett, Like, actual proper grief. I never felt this way about another human who I haven't actually met in person. But his writing lives in my heart and my brain and my bones and he will always be a part of who I am. GNU Terry Pratchett

[falliblefabrial]

[falliblefabrial]

I realized this evening it had been ten years since pterry died and my heart skipped a beat. GNU.

[adi-fitri]

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.

[smiling-grouch-deactivated20241]

Dedicated To Terry Pratchett April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015 My friend Amelia got me into Terry Pratchett’s Discworld in college. I haven’t read all 40 of the novels, but what I have read was always excellent. My only beef was  I would stay up way too late thinking “I’ll go to bed as soon as I’m done with this chapter!” when he never made any :) Literature lost a great man, today. A great, delightful, angry man.

[berfrois]

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett (April 28 1948 - March 12 2015) 

[darthfar]

I wish I had words to go with this.

[wapwani]

[ashermajestywishes]

Trust me when I say that every Pratchett fan, myself included, teared up at the first tweet. In the Discworld, only Death speaks in all caps, and Sir Terry wrote Death like he was an old and beloved friend.

He knew it was time to go and said goodbye in a way that his fans would recognise and appreciate. That is an artist. The bad news for me is that there will be no more new Discword novels. The good news for you, if you have not started them, is that you have years of Pratchett’s to read.

Remember… The Colour of Magic is Octarine.

[powersimon]

The carrier of carriers. A tribute to Terry Pratchett

[mumpitzhausen]

What happens, when a Writer dies?

I know what happens in my head during the writing process, and I also know how little of what’s in my head will eventually be written on the paper.

And when you read the books of your favourite authors, and their words build worlds, moods and characters in your own imagination – then what must it be like in the head of the author, where all of their ideas have their origin unfiltered and untouched by the limited possibilities of language?

Terry has created an unbelievably detailed, life-like, fantastic world with its own people, history and mythology. How crazy must all this have been in his head? I’d like to have looked into his head.

So: also if his books stay with us – and they remain the only connection I have ever had to him – what madness, what imagination has been lost with him.

One of Terry’s coolest, most sympathetic and human characters is DEATH. In capitals. DEATH likes cats and party hats and goes on vacations. He makes dying seem less final, more human, and takes away at least some of its terror.

There are many quotes by Terry about death, or by DEATH about death. This is what I like best, at the moment. It’s worth it to check out Terry Pratchett Quotes online, it’s like reading a philosophical and very funny essay about pretty much everything.

Thanks, Terry. - - - 

Edit: I’m a bit overwhelmed by how many people like this. I thank you and salute you. I wear the lilac in my head.

[fastcheeto]

“DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.’’

little something for Terry Pratchett, not any word can describe him.

[dduane]

[noirandchocolate]

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

–“Reaper Man”

‘Haven’t you ever heard the saying “Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’

–”Going Postal”

People will always remember the songs he never had the chance to sing.   And they will be the greatest songs of all. Live your life in a moment. And then live forever.  Don’t fade away.

–“Soul Music”

Terry Pratchett 4/28/48-3/12/15-GNU

[terrypratchettestate]

9 years. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.

[hapfairy]

We will miss you so much.