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You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”
it is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
“Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.
Pain lost its power when other things became more important.
having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.
things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity often springs from strife, child.”
The truth of the matter is, no man wants an intelligent wife.
They say they give their women more freedom, but there’s still the impression that the freedom was theirs to ‘give’ in the first place.
“Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.”
Not all men wanted a stupid wife—but there also weren’t a lot of men who felt comfortable around a woman they assumed was their intellectual superior.
“but to live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain—leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in your heart.”
“Definitely not—you optimists just can’t understand that a depressed person doesn’t want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”
