“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.”

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”

“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

“Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.”

“Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”