Dawnshard (2020)
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Notable Quotables
“Omens weren’t real. But the way people reacted to them was very real.”
On Capitalism
"What need can I fulfill?"
Most of Rysn's contemporaries entered a discussion asking, "What can I get from this?" Rysn had been disabused of that notion early in her training. Her babsk taught a different way of seeing the world training her to ask, "What need can I fulfill? That was the true purpose of a merchant, to find complimentary needs, then bridge the distance between them so everyone benefited. It wasn't about what you could get from people, but what you could get for them that made a successful merchant. And everyone had needs, even queens.
“It wasn’t about what you could get from people, but what you could get for them that made a successful merchant.”
“People talked about wealth, and how greed was such a terrible thing—and it could be dangerous, true. Yet the ambition of someone who had nothing to rise to a new station should not be easily dismissed or thought simplistic. There was so much more to it.”
On science
“More science happens through lucky accidents than you’d believe, Radiant Lopen,” Rushu said. “It makes me wonder how many amazing innovations we’ve passed up because we were searching for something else, and didn’t realize what we’d done.”