There is no magic, only mysteries explained, and mysteries unexplained. - John C. Wright

Merlin and Solomon can tell you how well the wise and learned can withstand the foolishness of love!

It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.

We are indeed human beings. We are merely not Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is a species, something into which one is born. Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.