“And then Young Sam had come along.

At first it had been fine. The baby was, well, a baby, all lolling head and burping and unfocused eyes, entirely the preserve of his mother.

And then, one evening, his son had turned and looked directly at Vimes, with eyes that for his father outshone the lamps of the world, and fear had poured into Sam Vimes’ life in a terrible wave.

All this good fortune, all this fierce joy … it was wrong.”

Honestly, I only clicked on this post to see how long it took someone to say Pratchett. 😂

Exactly. My copy of Monstrous Regiment is a mess and Soul Music would have been completely mutilated if I'd been using my hard copy to study it.

Honestly! I just started reading him and am in love

Working through discworld and good omens from the library and am very tempted to get my own copies so I can annotate and dog ear stuff