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“Your grasp of the language is startling,” Wax said, “considering how you so frequently brutalize it.” “Ain’t nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“I never went to the priests to confess,” she said, “because I knew they would despise me for my sin. Yet when you named all my sins today, I could bear it because I knew you didn’t despise me. I couldn’t understand why, though, till now.”

“I’m not one to despise other people for their sins,” said Ender. “I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say inside myself, I’ve done worse than this.”

“All these years you’ve borne the burden of humanity’s guilt.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“What I need to do,” Wayne said, “is get the whole city drunk.” “Or, you know, advocate workers’ rights to bring down working hours, improve conditions, and meet a base minimum of pay.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self