Children are parasites. Ungrateful. Inconvenient. I had to find someone else to feed mine, or I would have gotten nothing done.
Being afraid of everything means you learn nothing.
Before we can care for others, we must care for ourselves.
All life is born from chaos and destruction.
You’d be surprised what you’d do for the people you love.[to Philippa]
You can love someone and still let them go.
Where I’m from, the emperor’s personal physicians were buried with them when they died. It incentivized loyalty.
When emotion brings us ghosts from the past, only logic can root us in the present.
We’re all human here. We all start out with the same drives, the same needs. Maybe none of us, no matter what world we’re from, really know what darkness is waiting inside.
We learn our greatest lessons when we pay a heavy price.
Translation is not the essence of understanding.
There is no need to replace that which is not broken.
