Fans pay tribute to Terry Pratchett with these magical quotes

Terry Pratchett

After 66 inspiring years and a career spanning 70 magical books, fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett passed away yesterday. According to an official letter released by Penguin Random House, the novelist has been struggling with Alzheimer’s disease since he was diagnosed in 2007.

This didn’t stop Pratchett from colouring in the wittiest and most thoughtful corners of our imaginations as he continued writing and managed to complete his last Discworld novel in 2014.

A full statement from Larry Finlay, managing director at Transworld Publishers said the following:

I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Terry Pratchett has died. The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds. In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: he did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention. Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ’embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely. Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. His legacy will endure for decades to come. My sympathies go out to Terry’s wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him.

Fans from across the globe are mourning his death as much as they are celebrating his legacy by sharing memorable, tongue-in-cheek quotes on Twitter and other social platforms:

In reflection of his spirit and inspiring character, Pratchett’s personal Twitter account tweeted the following just before he passed on:

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