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no matter where you go, others will try to define you. Unless you define yourself.”
“Out of small resentments, spring great wars.”
Social progress, Kekonesestyle, Shae mused. Equal opportunity to die by the blade.
“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.”
“You have to go where your enemies are,” Hilo said. “And then further.”
they circled each other tentatively, as if the other person was a fire whose warmth they craved but knew might burn.
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.
