It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.

When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

I never said nothing..."
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

(About sweeping)....
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.