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What good is a dragoon anyway, except for chasing deadly monsters?”
“There is more that binds our worlds than separates them. You taught me that.
You cannot step twice in the same river.
It is easy to forgive a child for being afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when one is afraid of the light.
So much happens in the dark corners of our world, driven by shame or by guilt. People will willingly deceive others to save their reputation, which they esteem higher than their integrity.”
“Tomorrow will be a difficult day. But it will come. The sun always rises just as the darkness falls.”
“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise person would do well not to trust themselves on the edge.”
She felt a certain aloofness from the river. The waters would come and come, regardless of what happened to the city.
Becka helped untie and remove her corset, which eased the aching pressure on her ribs. She stared at the contraption, wondering who had invented it and wishing they’d been flogged.
It takes years to build trust and only moments to shatter it.
The ancients had it correct. Courage consists not of hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in pursuit of a just cause.
If you knew, Daughter, that you could not fail, if you were absolutely convinced that you would succeed, what would you dare to do?”
Life crushes all ambition from them. Only the brave lift up their heads and demand more.
“We always summon our fears to ourselves. That is because what we desire most is on the other side of fear.
One who will either know the triumph of achievement or . . . fail while daring greatly.
It is a war that will baptize both of our worlds in blood.”
