My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
Terry PratchettCats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.
Terry PratchettSybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.
Terry Pratchett