There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.