‘… some music can follow you for ever.’ (Sn)
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The man’s face so assiduously betrayed nothing that it betrayed everything. (Sn)
‘Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.’ (Sn)
‘All of us hope for a little redemption, whether we deserve it or not.’ (Sn)
‘I have to negotiate this problem, and, believe me, it’s going to take a lot of quid for the pro quo.’ (Sn)
‘… the law cannot operate retrospectively. If it did none of us would be safe.’ (Sn)
‘How went your holidays, apart from lawless actions, ad hoc activities, fights, chases on both land and sea and indeed fresh water, unauthorized expenditure and, of course, farting in the halls of the mighty?’ (Sn)
So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to delegate! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn’t received and might have been eaten by the gargoyles. (Sn)
… they were a cunning bunch, poets, and could sneak up on you when your back was turned. (Sn)
‘… there has to be some justice in the world, you see, not necessarily law justice but justice justice, and that’s why I’m going to kill you.’ (Sn)
You didn’t need to be a cynic, you just had to understand people. (Sn)
It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you always wanted to do it …. (Sn)
…periwinkles, like cockles and whelks, might be considered the snot of the sea. (Sn)
When you aren’t expecting it, that’s when you should expect it! (Sn)
It was true that every organization had to have its backbone, and therefore it stood to reason that there also would have to be some person who equated to the bits usually destined for dog food. (Sn)
‘…sometimes you should follow the arrogance … You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!’ (Sn)
His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway. (Sn)
… the good guy was the good guy because he didn’t want anyone to see him being bad. He did not want to be ashamed. He did not want to be the darkness. (Sn)
… a crowbar is a universal pass key. (Sn)
‘What are we going to do, commander?’
And Vimes blinked and said, ‘Everything!’ (Sn) … it is generally agreed that water has memory. It knew the score: you evaporated, you floated around in a cloud until somebody organised everybody, and then you all fell down as rain. (Sn)
… the venerable philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle says, you have to do something or be considered, in the great scheme of things, a tit. (Sn)
‘There is no race so wretched that there is not something out there that cares for them …’ (Sn)
… I’m too damn scared to tell Feeney that I’m too damn scared. Hah, the story of my life, too much of a damn coward to be a coward! (Sn)
Regrettably Sybil was right. At his age you had to be sensible. You sometimes had to catch your breath, while you still had some. (Sn)
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