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“Smart people are always learning something new. Stupid people just stay stupid. Remember that.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Alas, sometimes man plans but the gods laugh.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Better to be poor and alive than dead on the road to riches,”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“But she is a woman.â€�
“As am I, pastor. Has it ever occurred to you that women may be just as useful as men in this world? After all, women often have a sincere desire to help those who are suffering and in need. Men defend home and country, and women manage the home so that men have somewhere to return to.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Two intelligent people can always find common ground.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Yes, Lilian Earton was a large woman. She was fat. There was no other word for it. But at the same time, there was something indefinable about her. Was it an inner light? A sparkle in her eyes? The way she spoke and moved and made things move around her? The man couldn’t have said exactly. He didn’t know the word “charisma,â€� but that was exactly what she had. She had personality that no layers of fat could hide. She was impressive.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Eventually the old herbalist realized that Jaimie had knowledge to share, as well. Two intelligent people can always find common ground.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“You change the world, but the world changes you, too. There’s no getting around it. I have to survive here, no matter what it costs me.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“These people don’t even realize how tied down they are by thinking of themselves as either lords or peasants.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“But the true voyagers are those who leave
only to move: hearts like balloons, as light,
they never swerve from their destinies,
and, without knowing why, say, always: ‘Flight!�
Those whose desires take on cloud-likenesses,
who dream of vast sensualities, the same
way a conscript dreams of the guns, shifting vaguenesses,
that the human spirit cannot name. Charles Baudelaire. “Le Voyage”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Ali, my friend! May your horse always be fleet, your herds plentiful, your fields fruitful and your wives young and beautiful.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“If she’s lucky, she’ll grow up to be a decent person instead of the wife of a feudal lord.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Richard grimaced. She was attractive, but not to his liking. Something about her reminded him of spoiled meat served in a complicated sauce â€� it may look good, but it’s inedible.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“As the days wore on, there was less and less of Aliya left in her. She couldn’t remember what Alex’s eyes had looked like, or how her father laughed at off-color jokes, or what the head of surgery said to her the first time she walked into the operating room. It was all gone. Her new reality was the castle, Earton, and these strange people that she had to build a life with.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“What has happened to you, Aliya Skorolenok? Who have you become? The reflection said nothing, because there was nothing to say.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Eric thought he could imagine how aristocrats raised their daughters. Like rare flowers, they lived behind high walls, way out in the country where they could remain innocent and tremulous. Knowledge was not something such parents gave their daughters. He had seen enough of this while serving as a mercenary in Avesterra. Girls from wealthy families had little information and even less common sense in their heads. All they knew how to do was embroider and bat their eyelashes (and they weren’t even supposed to do too much of that).”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing

“Do your duty and let the cards fall where they may.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Clearing