Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Understanding breeds empathy.

both the critical eye and the loving eye must be used in order to put something into focus

a great compliment, but I don't write books like hers.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.