Lexie

“It’s this: Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal. What is your goal?” “To save as many lives as possible, through every means possible.” “Be confident in that, and everything else will follow.” “Thank you,” Cardenia said, after a minute. “What you said about confidence makes sense to me.” “You’re welcome,” Rachela I said. “I read it in a book once.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“I just wanted you to understand that while it’s pretty cool, it’s not a dangerous gift because I can only do so much before you realise you’re being manipulated.”
― Lynette Noni, Akarnae

“Do not overly rely on this. Whoever sold it to you did a terrible job on the charm. The ifrit might be able to track it.” Dara scowled again. “I did the charm.” The peri lifted his delicate brows. “Well . . . then perhaps keep those close,” he suggested with a nod to the weapons piled under the tree.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire