“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”

— Tamora Pierce , book The Will of the Empress

Source: The Will of the Empress

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Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”