It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions a...
Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people, mumbled Sam.Do they? said Vimes. Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?'cos they torture people.
Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.
Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.''Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' sa...
Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting
The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. As...
That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.