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There’s nothing that will cause you greater grief than trying to fulfill or avoid a prophecy.”
“People say things they don’t mean when they’re hurt and wish to make others hurt with them,” her mother had said once when Oddny was younger and had come crying to her after an argument with Signy. “You’re sisters. When two people know each other as well as you girls do, you know the exact things to say that will cause each other the most pain.”
“You’ll get used to being afraid. If you don’t feel fear, why would you need to be brave?”
When your patron calls you, they’ll judge your strengths and weaknesses against yourself, not against others.”
“But the bigger question is, when the battle is over, how do we carry on? How do we put the horror behind us and go on living? It eats away at a person, little by little.”
But to me, you’ve been someone all along. You never had anything to prove.
“How will you ever master your fear if you won’t admit to feeling it in the first place? Embrace it. Wield it. Things are only going to get more difficult from here. But in the end, it shall be worth it.”
People seldom listen to reason when they’d rather be angry,”
I don’t think the dead want us to die for them. I think a better way to honor them is to live.”
“That a woman need not be defined by her men. That she can stand for herself and make her own way.”
