Nenad

“My attendants. There are a dozen or so of them. Do not worry—they will eat at the other end of the table for the sake of our privacy.” Caeden looked at him curiously. “You eat with your servants?” “Am I any more a man than they?” Gassandrid frowned at him. “Are they not my people, my friends? Why should I not dine with them?”
― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come

“Listen, son… when I was your age, I had to face truths that seemed to break the world. That’s what happens when you come into contact with people who aren’t quite like you. You learn over time that the world isn’t broken. It’s just… got more pieces to it than you thought. They all fit together, just maybe not the way you pictured when you were young.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“If a builder and an architect sit at the same table, does one role become more like the other? Or do they work better together because of it?”
― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come

“The people with whom we are friends should never affect our morality;rather, our morality should affect with whom we are friends.”
― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come