Courtney

“Like I said, there are layers. People might agree with the principles but there’s more to it. Maybe they finally find a place with the true believers – a place they never had before with anyone else. Maybe the ideals, while not that important to them, open up paths to success or honor that weren’t open to them before. Maybe they get power they didn’t have. Maybe it just makes them feel good to rub other people’s faces in the dirt or feel like they’re somehow in the right or cleverer than their neighbors, or to rebel – not against anything, just to rebel in general. People are strange. In that buzz of thoughts and wants any one thing could be the controlling impulse that launches them down a path you can’t turn back from.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“It felt so strange to see them all constrained to the breadth of the road after I’d known no limits but the sky for this long.

It’s my gift to you. The closest thing we mortals get to real freedom.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Shouldn’t a position as important as guarding a gate be for someone older?

Shouldn’t a job as important as delivering the Dominar’s messages be for someone older?

Ouch.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Not everyone is willing to break the rules and customs like I am. But I say that customs are made to serve us, we are not made to serve customs.

But if everyone thought that way there would be lawlessness.

I’d flame anyone else who disobeyed our customs. That’s only for me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message