He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
Terry PratchettAnd these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.
Terry PratchettRings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.
Terry PratchettYou have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape โ the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes โ we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Terry Pratchett