Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art. - Karen Lord

Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead.

Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there’s a store just around the corner?

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.