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⌈ Secret Post #2604 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Sherlock BBC]

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[Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward]

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[Elementary]

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[SPN]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[My Neighbor Totoro]

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[Unsounded]

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...And I just read that you only asked for one, and I gave you more than one. Sorry! I swear I know how to count... |D

From Night Watch by Terry Pratchett:

"He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew....Then it was too high. History finds a way? Well, it would have to come up with something good, because it was up against Sam Vimes now."

-Narration/Sam Vimes POV

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“I joined the fight. I snatched up a lilac bloom from a fallen man and, I have to say, held it in my mouth. I'd like to think I made some difference; I certainly killed four men, although I take no particular pride in that. They were thugs, bullies. No real skill.

- The Vetinari

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"I repeat, I order you to dismantle this barricade." [Vimes] took a deep breath and went on. "And rebuild it on the other side of the corner with Cable Street! And put up another one at the top of Sheer Street! Properly built! Good grief, you don't just pile stuff up, for god's sake! A barricade is something you construct!"

- Sam Vimes

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Vimes: Really? And perhaps some sort of inspiring slogan?
Vetinari: Yes, indeed. Something like, perhaps, 'They Did the Job they Had to Do'?
Vimes: No. How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything.

(I just listened to the audio book, so I have it/Discworld on the brain, sorry)

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From The Hogfather

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

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And then if narration counts, this quote from Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett:

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Edited (and spell >_>) 2014-02-19 00:48 (UTC)

AHHHHHHHHHHHH all of this is so good.

I hate you for posting all of this I am suddenly tearing up and feeling many things about Night Watch gdi Vimes made me cry like fcr times all by himself and Vetinari was made so human in the book argh no it too early in the morning to feel this way

Try listening to the audiobook; it's not perfect, but it does a decent job of punching you in the gut while you're minding your own business at the grocery store. D:

Despite what my adventures in Discworld may imply, I don't actually enjoy being punched in the gut D: The books were bad enough - I actually skip the more emotional scenes during rereads if I'm not feeling up to facing them.

Ah. Fair. :)

Pratchett has *so* many good quotes. Pretty much everything with the Summoning Dark in Thud is badass.
"I am the Guarding Dark."

Paraphrasing from one of the watch books, maybe also Thud:
"Who watches the watchmen?"
"Me, sir."
"Well, who watches you?"
"I do that too. All the time."

And a funny badass line, which requires some context:
Dorfl, a golem, has been given free will, and several priests are protesting. He questions the existence of gods, and gets struck by lightning. Being made of clay his response:
"I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument."

Pritchett's amazing, and I swear I was going to add some quotes from Thud!, but I thought the post was getting too long. |D

I haven't read Feet of Clay yet, though. Someday!

Excellent quotes, all. Pratchett is such a genius. ♥

Thank you. He is, isn't he? ♥

So many amazing quotes. I know there are some from Small Gods and Granny Weatherwax in general that I love, but I am too tired to dig my books out.

I know it gets quoted a lot, but my favourite Granny Weatherwax quote has to be from Carpe Jugulum: "There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is."

DA

And from the same book: "I ain't been vampired: you've been Weatherwaxed."

Because it's going to take a lot more than vampires to corrpt Granny, ladies and gents. Not when she knows exactly what evil is, and exactly who she is too.

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