"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

But sometimes, you can't help yourself. Darling of the Day from David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas:

"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage."

Oh it's who? Nevermind, then...

Foreign government is financing, training and arming a terrorist organization that has killed US servicemen.