Besserwisser

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She would not be what she is if she had ever had something given her that was a burden equal to her strength.”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor