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“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”
“The things that others have always seem better than what you have,”
A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
“The sensation—it’s not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you’d feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just . . . haze and smoke inside. Like you’re already dead.”
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
