Adrian

“Sax had always been so uninterested in [power and gain] that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would be. What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“Taravangian is wrong, the Stormfather said. You are not a hypocrite, Son of Honor. “I am,” Dalinar said softly. “But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The value of education is not that you are better than others, it's that you're better than the you that doesn't have education. If the only value you see in education is "can be used to get a better job" you are valuing jobs -- not productivity or wealth or wellbeing but the mere existence of employment -- over almost everything else. You're welcome to do that, but it's choice you're making, not some fundamental truth about the universe, and other people aren't wrong for disagreeing. For most of human history education existed and jobs did not, and there's a least some chance that will be true again in the future...”
― Zachary P. Kotlarek