James Coleman
Favorite Quotes
" 'Sin excites you?'
'No, but it's just the world's realer out there, you know? Telling the occasional lie or being jealous of someone or stealing a loaf of bread to feed their little sister. Fighting a cutpurse to protect yourself. It's not that it's exciting, it's... it's life.' I wave at the palace, at everything inside it. 'This isn't life' "(178).
Life is made to be challenging, it is made to be unfair. The trials one undertakes ultimately transform a person until they become what they were always meant to be. Without mistakes, guilt, sadness, there would be no happiness or repercussions which guide moral decisions. To mess up is to be human, and without that, without any cause and affect, a person is not truly living. A life with absolutely no mistakes or challenges is not whole. It is artificial, like the person. That type of life becomes worthless, because no worth was spent trying to gain achievement.
"When you're trying to scavenge for your one meal of the day, you can tell how valuable something is by how people treat it, not by what's written down as it's price"(218).
"They build places like this with ceilings high overhead and walls very far apart to make it seem like human beings don't live here. Things bigger than people do"(80).
"Is this why it's so easy to order baptisms? If a city where people live is small enough to fit on the edge of your nail, that must make it easier to send Hurlers to destroy those dahia and chase people from their homes. From this far away, you can't possibly see how alive the city is"(168).
'No, but it's just the world's realer out there, you know? Telling the occasional lie or being jealous of someone or stealing a loaf of bread to feed their little sister. Fighting a cutpurse to protect yourself. It's not that it's exciting, it's... it's life.' I wave at the palace, at everything inside it. 'This isn't life' "(178).
Life is made to be challenging, it is made to be unfair. The trials one undertakes ultimately transform a person until they become what they were always meant to be. Without mistakes, guilt, sadness, there would be no happiness or repercussions which guide moral decisions. To mess up is to be human, and without that, without any cause and affect, a person is not truly living. A life with absolutely no mistakes or challenges is not whole. It is artificial, like the person. That type of life becomes worthless, because no worth was spent trying to gain achievement.
"When you're trying to scavenge for your one meal of the day, you can tell how valuable something is by how people treat it, not by what's written down as it's price"(218).
"They build places like this with ceilings high overhead and walls very far apart to make it seem like human beings don't live here. Things bigger than people do"(80).
"Is this why it's so easy to order baptisms? If a city where people live is small enough to fit on the edge of your nail, that must make it easier to send Hurlers to destroy those dahia and chase people from their homes. From this far away, you can't possibly see how alive the city is"(168).
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