And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted?...

This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to whatever they want, whatever they can grab. Such people never ask themselves if they have the right. They...

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Pain only disables the weak.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

To know your enemy, Kelsea. Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.