“I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”
“You look as if you have bitten into a turd.”
“Do you have troll turds in your ears?”
“Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd?”
“You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.”
“Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.”