Guards! Guards! We Are Dragons

Guards! Guards! We Are Dragons

The dragon looks into Wonse’s mind and discovers something it cannot understand, something worse than dragons, humanity.

This is one of my favorite quotes in the entire series. I hope I did it justice.

discworld illustration pen and ink dragon lupine wonse hoard
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we are dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that once was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one apart and called it morality.
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