How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"In this, in this one thing, I would not be driven by obligation, but rather to have a…" Choice. Gyaar did not say it, knew that he could not. "In this one thing, of all of them, you must be driven by obligation." (10.115)
Gyaar's mom doesn't back down when he puts up a fight. Whether her son gets married and has kids isn't a matter of her wanting little grandkids; it's about securing the future heirs for the country.
Quote #5
"Free," the Lord would say. "Make yourself free." In his mind, Cam saw the mailed arm making a slow sweep of the air: "Free of the palace, the grounds, the village." Free of the North and the South. Free. (11.1)
Cam doesn't just want to be free from Gyaar or Upland—he wants to be free of obligations. He's fought long and hard in a war that only did harm to everyone around, and now he just wants to escape it all.
Quote #6
Faint color washed into the garden, with the dawn. It was like the census: The more time Gyaar spent here in the garden, the more he grew into it, and it grew into him. He thought of the new laid over the old, lawn and trees over the gray gravel that had been here before. Uplander over Downlander. (12.71)
As Gyaar tries to calm himself each day, he thinks about what the war means for his side (a.k.a. the winners). We might expect it to be glamorous, but in reality, it just gives him a laundry list of things to do: get married, provide heirs, rule the nation. Easy enough, right?