How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The truth was simple: While I was imagining, I felt strong and steady. Was that what being a wizard was like? Feeling stronger and steadier than anyone else? (44.10)
Maybe learning magic isn't all about starvation, sleep deprivation, and psychological torture after all. Hahp manages to have some feel-good moments, though they're not really based on happy feelings (he imagines confronting his father, sometimes hurting him as a result). But if practicing magic can put you in a more positive headspace, maybe it's not all bad.
Quote #5
Who had laughed? Franklin? I had imagined him talking to me before, saying things that were impossible, things that made no sense.
I dragged in a long breath. No. I hadn't imagined s***. Franklin had tricked me into seeing things, hearing things. It was some kind of weird magic. Maybe. Or maybe I was just going mad. (46.11-12)
Hahp starts hearing things, which is never a good sign. He thinks maybe one of the wizards laughed at him… or made him hallucinate hearing the laughter… or maybe he's just going crazy. It's a tough call. Questioning your sanity is never fun.
Quote #6
Then a Gypsy woman had fallen in love with him when he saved her child from death, and she had stolen an ancient book from her father to give to the Founder. (50.6)
Even though the history book Hahp reads presents it as fact, we know better. We get to see the events as they unfold in Franklin, Somiss, and Sadima's storyline, so we know that it was Franklin who actually saved the Gypsy woman's child. It seems unlikely that the Gypsy woman fell in love with Somiss, though she had, out of gratitude, provided him with a book that she'd copied herself from her father's library. We wonder why Somiss created a slightly altered version of reality in his telling of these events—and why Franklin never corrected it.