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It was a shame, she thought, that so many beautiful things were also so ugly on the inside.
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She had little effort to spare for making unpleasant men more comfortable.
told her that he was working under the severe handicap of his personality, and that she shouldn’t begrudge him the attempt.”
“Pleasant-mannered people are simply the worst sort of people. Decent people become properly angry when presented with miserable injustice, but pleasant-mannered people never do.”
“I cannot help but feel that if we had fewer pleasant-mannered people, then perhaps there would also be fewer of these hideous wars.”
“My full name is Theodora Eloisa—” “Oh, dear lord, don’t tell it all to me now!” Elias snapped. At Dora’s confused look, he added, “You should never tell your full name to a magician. Nor to a faerie, for that matter. It gives them power over you.”
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do not know if they truly appreciate the conditions here,” she said. “Pleasant-mannered people do not speak of ugly things, after all.”
But he holds onto that anger in a way that is both highly productive and terribly miserable.”
“I think that Elias has been angry now for so long that he is scared to let it go – I think he is scared that it would make him too complacent, and he might become all of those things which he so despises in others.”
