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But if you recognize yourself in these pages—if you feel something stirring inside—stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And once you know that, it’s only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they’ll come for you.
“The world does not deal well with those who don’t pick a side.”
“I like the middle,” said Vimes.
“That gives you two enemies. I’m amazed that you can afford so many, on a sergeant’s pay.”
― Night Watch
“I like the middle,” said Vimes.
“That gives you two enemies. I’m amazed that you can afford so many, on a sergeant’s pay.”
― Night Watch
“No. The protest was over the price of bread, said Vimes’s inner voice. The riot was what happens when you have panicking people trapped between idiots on horseback and other idiots shouting “yeah, right!” and trying to push forward, and the whole thing in the charge of a fool advised by a maniac with a steel rule.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“You’re an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favour,’ said Vimes. ‘And to protect the innocent. That’s all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You’re an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? “I wish I knew then what I know now”? But when you got older, you found out that you now wasn’t you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp. A much better dream, one that’d ensure sounder sleep, was not to know now what you didn’t know then.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
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