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“Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.”
“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”
To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.”
Life struggles to continue, at any cost.
Did not stars shine in daytime in the bottoms of the deepest wells?
“The profit from danger only pays you interest in trouble,”
you are a short-lived folk, given to shortening every life experience in the hope of comprehending it.
He had discovered the power of cruelty, and it was corrupting him swiftly.
There was no truth in this sort of politics, and very little ethics. There were only stances and posturing.
He was too aware of how the knife-edge of uncertainty could score a man’s soul.
Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.”
His feelings spun like a weathervane.
I reach forward, Paragon, through mists of time to symbols that become people and people who teeter on the verge of legend.
Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.”
For when you became the beast, little Kennit, you doomed yourself to share the beast’s end.”
When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
“In politics, appearance matters far more than truth.
