How to Describe Characters

Magrat arrived at as near to a run as was possible in the queen outfit, which ought to have had castors.

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Ponder said nothing. When you’re a cork in someone else’s stream of consciousness, all you can do is spin and bob in the eddies.

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Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field—if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there.

— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies.