“If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.”
“Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.”
“The hardest lesson any of us must learn is there’s only so much we can do,” she informed him, her voice lemon-tart. “We run into it headfirst all the time, knowing what we can do, what we can’t, how much we can do. We think of magic as this promise that we will fix anything that comes our way, Keth. We can’t.”
“Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris,” Niko said gently. “It’s like scrying the future. You’re assailed with thousands of images — fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane.” “You learned to scry the future,” Tris pointed out. “And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad,” Niko replied, his voice very dry.”
“It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.”
“What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind.”
“We were quite a team, I thought. One starts a task and the other finishes without a word being spoken.”
“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi”
“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
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