Ardelle

“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Ney spoke like a man who had never been a child.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Mankind's spirit inspired Felix. These people had no special gifts, no enhancements, nothing, and yet they lived. These ordinary men and women had suffered the worst the galaxy had to throw at them. It humbled him that he would spend his life in service to them.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones