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“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade

“Another trap. Never let yourself be tricked into comparing one woman with all others; it rarely turns out well.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Tyrant's Throne

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe