"But that doesn't make any sense. Why would anybody who knew what it was like want it to keep happening? How could somebody feel something that awful and not want to make it go away forever?" Key pleaded.

"It's a mystery to me," said Lace. "Maybe it's a matter of being used to it."

• Alicorn, Damage Report

Fool! There is no Equilibrium! It is a word that you wizards say at only and exactly those times that you don't want to bother! It prevents you from giving food to the hungry, but not from filling your own bellies! Your friends are good enough to be healed, no threat to the Balance there, but the cripple in the streets must be left to suffer -

• EY, The Sword of Good