“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”
“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”
“For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.”
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”
“You’re a genius!” – Abigail“Ah now, don’t be going on like that. I might actually think you like me, and where would we be then?” – Sundown”
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”