Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

by Robin Hobb

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation.

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.”

Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.

And the end of the thread must pass through the tangle many times before all is unknotted.”