#discworld snuff

[spunchthegoblin]

Vimes is hitting hard this book..

[iamthespineofmybook]

A copper should always be willing to learn, and Vimes had learned from Lord Vetinari that you should never react to any comment or situation until you had decided exactly what you were going to do. This had the dual attraction of preventing you from saying or doing the wrong thing while at the same time making other people extremely nervous.

Snuff, Discworld book 39

[erudipitous-art]

“Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to be able to present to you tonight Tears of the Mushroom playing her own composition, The Twilight Serenade. I hope you will like it, and, in fact, I know that you will.”

“The girl had a curious tranquillity, as if she hadn’t realized that she should be in awe. She smiled at Sybil in her strange way and waited, with fingers poised, over the strings.”  

- Snuff, Terry Pratchett

[mendedrum]

Discworld Snuff be like

[clockworkspider]

Something about tears of the mushroom performing at the opera house makes me so frustrated I wanna cry.

Go forth, young girl, prove your worth to the people who hate you. Play your song.

[iamthespineofmybook]

"The law is one and immutable. It does not care who anybody is and at that moment you, in a very real way, are it, and therefore nor do you."

Constable Feeney, quoting Commander Vimes, Snuff, Discworld book 39

[iamthespineofmybook]

"As for bloody jurisdiction, murder is the crime of crimes. According to the Omnians it was the third crime ever committed! (note: The first two being common theft and public indecency.) I know of no society anywhere in the world that doesn’t consider it a crime to be pursued with vigour, understand? And as for the law, don’t try to talk to me about the law. I am not above the law, but I stand right underneath it, and I hold it up!"

Commander Vimes, Snuff, Discworld book 39

[iamthespineofmybook]

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.

Snuff, Discworld book 39