Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.