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“I crawled out of my grave, as I promised. Do you think I’d let you get away again? You promised me daughters with your eyes. Where you go, I will follow.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within the person. What is life's meaning if you cannot distinguish between happiness and sorrow?”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Sometimes people do things because they want to, and not because they make sense.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“The bonds that tie us together are the same bonds preventing us from what we would sacrifice for ourselves.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“It was hard work, killing nightmares.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Tea,â€� Althy said, “focus. Remember that we have a purpose in coming here.â€� “Yes,â€� I found myself saying, “to read everything we can get our hands on.â€� “Oh dear,â€� murmured my asha-sister. “We’ve lost her.â€� â€�”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“The best truths are always simple, I think. Life makes them complicated.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Guilt feels heavier on good men's shoulders.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Even the dead have their stories.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“The road to treachery and malice has always been cobbled with the intentions of those who thought to only do what was best.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Karma is a sweet, unforgiving mistress.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Words are shapeshifters. They take different forms to suit different motivations. The word for blue can be sifted and changed until it spells red. We share similar teachings with the Faceless, but what they take and learn from those teachings are different from the messages we treasure. It is why words are important, and it is why they can be dangerous.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“Our value changes depending on how we perceive our worth.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Before you weigh your neighbor's hogs, fix your own broken pens.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“A harmless lie is better than a harmful truth. Better to wield strength in an imperfect land than to be powerless in a perfect one.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“But you aren’t living if you’ve never faced danger that would give you a good, long piss in the pants, am I right?”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“But isn’t that good?â€� Likh asked. “To want a perfect world?â€� “To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within a person. What is life’s meaning”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“We never discuss politics unless we're at least half-drunk, Lord Kalen. That's how we maintain our sanity.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Being a girl or a boy or a Deathseeker or an asha isn’t about how you were born; it’s about who you are. You had no say in how you were born, and neither did I, but my ability to be true to who I am is the reason I’m an asha, not a Deathseeker. And the reason you’re an asha, not a Faceless. “I don’t want to make other people uncomfortable, but I want to be who I am, and I need to understand my pride in that before anything else. Even if there are no spells to give me that shape, it doesn’t stop me from knowing I am a woman, whatever else they may say. Can’t…can’t I at least have that?”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“Being a girl or a boy or a Deathseeker or an asha isn’t about how you were born; it’s about who you are. You had no say in how you were born, and neither did I, but my ability to be true to who I am is the reason I’m an asha, not a Deathseeker. And the reason you’re an asha, not a Faceless. “I don’t want to make other people uncomfortable, but I want to be who I am, and I need to understand my pride in that before anything else.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass

“you look like a little thunder cloud hovering in the middle of a field of sunshine.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Temptation is strange, it crawls out of unexpected places.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“But we have been conditioned to obey authority in subtle manners, Zoya. You would be surprised at how very few actually speak up in the face of injustice.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadow Glass