“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
“What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.”
“Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?” Cameron barked a laugh. “Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn’t really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say?”
“There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.”
“Men are so blind in their impiety that, as it were, they bump into mountains and refuse to see what hits them in the eye.”
“I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”