Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

by Robin Hobb

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?

death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.