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no matter where you go, others will try to define you. Unless you define yourself.”
“That won’t be necessary,” she said. “My grandfather taught me that if a friend asks for your forgiveness, you should always give it.” Her guests relaxed considerably, their shoulders coming down, smiles beginning to appear on their faces. Shae added, before any of them could begin to speak, “He also taught me that if you have to give it again, then they weren’t a friend to begin with.”
No matter where you are in the world, the one thing that keeps men from killing each other is a fear of what’ll happen after they’re dead.”
We women claw for every inch we gain in this world, and you’d worked too hard for your place on Ship Street to let it be taken from you.
If you want to lead, you can’t wait for everyone to line up behind you.”
Anden had been indoctrinated since childhood with the idea that for Green Bones, the possibility of death was like the weather—you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to threat of rain.
Now, however, he felt no great relief or happiness—only the sort of heaviness that comes from wanting something for so long that the final achievement of it is a loss—because the waiting is over and the waiting has become too much a part of oneself to let go of easily.
