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Stop defining yourself by what you can’t do. Why don’t you consider what you didn’t lose?”
Do you know how easy it is, Fitz, to follow a man you believe in?”
“She has an ample share of what Chivalry had. The instinct for seizing the moment and turning it to advantage. She took an unavoidable, unmentionable situation and made high tragedy of what might have been simple slaughter in lesser hands. Boy, we have a Queen, a Queen again at Buckkeep!”
“A message is not delivered until it is understood,”
when a soldier cannot defend what his leader has done, he must either agree with the criticism or find another area in which to disagree.
‘The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.’
we are two old men, who have grown old together. Sometimes that is a greater closeness. We have come through time to your day and age. We can talk together, quietly, and share memories of a time that exists no more. I can tell you how it was, but it is not the same. It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.
“Some things cannot be solved,” he pointed out philosophically. “Drink makes those things much more tolerable.”
