" Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you – the master of lies. Outside, you are fearsome; inside, you are nothing but weakness. "

― Terry Pratchett , I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)