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People can be any kind of weird as long as they aren’t harming anyone. Hells, that makes them victorious—that’s their truth, they get to live it.”
Stories that were much different than Ivar’s, of course; she was a Healer, not an explorer. Her stories were about people, rather than places.
“I’ll never be ready,” someone finally said, breaking the silence. “But I’ll be able.”
When anyone is preoccupied only with staying alive, it is damned near impossible to embrace the fact that a better future is even possible. That’s why poverty is a form of suppression—it keeps the people without power from thinking too big.
Help them through, whenever you can.
Humans given no incentive to do more . . . generally will not.”
He could not possibly have gotten away with as much as he had if people were actually good at what they were supposed to do, or cared about what they were supposed to do.
Whatever their origin story, an asshole was an asshole.