Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.