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“Feelings aren’t proof. Feelings are the opposite of proof.’
‘Not when the thing you’re trying to prove is someone’s humanity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“I believed them. Scud, I believed Cuna was sincere. But could I trust my own assessment? The fact that I’d so grossly misread their expressions reinforced this idea. I was among aliens. They were people, with real love and emotions, but they also—by definition—wouldn’t do things the same way humans did.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“We have grown complacent, timid. I fear that a little aggression, a little strife, might be exactly what we need. Or else…or else we will fall to the first wolf that sneaks past the gates.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight