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"Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?"
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."

"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"

"Ignorance shuts the mind's door tight, wisdom swings it wide open."

"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."

"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."

"When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you."

"Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit)."
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"I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be."


"Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world."


"Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me."


"I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down."


"Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat."


"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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