"I'll not call you fool. I'll simply wish that more felt that way. It's... rare." Being nice didn't give one power, generally, and so much of Thedas was fixated on power, on keeping people down so they could climb those bodies to the top.

"But maybe Thedas can start to change there too. It has a great many changes to make as it is. Surely one more can fit into place. Maybe. I don't know. Hope is a very difficult thing, or so I find."