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“Some people can never forgive being forgiven.”

“What is the point of gathering knowledge if one does not pass it on? What is the point of growing old if one does not try to shape the future?”

“Take it far enough, freedom becomes chaos. The voice of the people… is just noise. It is the blather of the lunatics in the madhouse. It is the squeal of the pigs in the slaughterhouse. It is the choir of morons. Most of them don’t even know what they want, let alone how to get it. They need someone to tell them what to do.”

“Flags never add to a man, d’you see, just stand in for something he’s missing.”

“The past isn’t made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.”

“Being a parent… there is no plan. It’s just a set of mistakes you hardly notice making.”

“Savine liked to think she had changed. But who dislikes being knelt to?”

“If the Great Change taught us anything, it is that the vast majority of us are cowards the vast majority of the time.”

“Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.”

“Picked up her smith’s hammer and gave the already ruined High Table a brutal beating.
“Court is in fucking session!” she snarled.”

“You excited?”
“Honestly, I’m shitting myself.”
“Two ways of saying the same thing.”