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** It gets better when you realize that you don't know ''which'' Sam he's talking about. Himself in the past, or his newborn son, named for him.
* "Just in case, and without any feeling of guilt, Vimes removed his knife, and... gave what help he could."
** Oh gods yes, that entire sequence in the torture chambers. The descriptions are so vague and murky you can only begin to imagine the horrors down there. There's two scenes in particular that always get me -- firstme—first, when Vimes finds his younger self in tears, because Sam found a woman who had had ''something'' horrible happen to her that we never find out, thankfully. Then, later on, when "Keel" stops Sam from killing one of the torturers and gives him a speech that pretty much defines who Vimes is and why he fights the monsters inside... well, it has to be read, but it always makes my vision go blurry...
*** Not to mention, the sight of that woman is something that has apparently stayed with Vimes. He considers going into that room, but quickly decides that once in his life was once too many to see that.
* Vimes's "What if we actually won?" dilemma, his consequent [[Heroic BSOD]] and his recovery. Doubled as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote|"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. "}}
 
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