Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.