Ions

“Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“There, in the worlds of the Life and the Death, the worlds that she used to know.
Now, some say her name is Mercy, and others say it's Lust. Her secret name is Isis. Her secret soul is Dust.”
― Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness

“Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."
"It’s a clever lettuce, then."
"Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?"
"Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
"Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear