Maybe that’s wisdom, seeing things that are obvious. - Django Wexler

You're a cat," she said automatically.
"Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.

When you're as old as I am," Ending said, "one's nature is largely a product of habit.

The strongest don't always get what they want," she said to Ending. "Not when the weak can work together.