“Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategythat eluded him at the moment.”

“Immigration policy should begenerous; it should be fair; it shouldbe flexible. With such a policy wecan turn to the world, and to our ownpast, with clean hands and a clearconscience.”

“Eleanor wrapped her arms around aniel's neck as he lowered her feet to the cold floor. She leaned into him and inhaled his scent - warm and clean with the slightest hing of fireplace smoke - and committed it to memory."Don't worry," she said, finally letting him go. "I miss you already.”

“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more a question hovering over the surfaces.”

“The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.”

“Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”