Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

by Robin Hobb

There is no shame in walking away from bones,

Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.

“There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.”

Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?”

I clutched him to me, and my grip sighed his last stilled breath out of his lungs. But Nighteyes was gone. Cold rain was cascading down past the mouth of the cave.

DEVASTATED.

So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.