"Indeed. Self-pity tends toward stagnation." Octavian prefers to channel his feelings of woundedness into an unrelenting drive for revenge.
He does not believe her when she says people in her time know what they're doing. He believes they must be like her: well-intentioned but imprecise. (This is what he thinks of her, anyhow.)
"Achievement, and action, can be both salutary and preventative. One builds a certain momentum, and one will not stagnate. Perhaps that can be an answer to your fear as well, concerning expulsion from the Academy."
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Date: 2008-04-19 09:51 pm (UTC)He does not believe her when she says people in her time know what they're doing. He believes they must be like her: well-intentioned but imprecise. (This is what he thinks of her, anyhow.)
"Achievement, and action, can be both salutary and preventative. One builds a certain momentum, and one will not stagnate. Perhaps that can be an answer to your fear as well, concerning expulsion from the Academy."