Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

by Robin Hobb

For when you became the beast, little Kennit, you doomed yourself to share the beast’s end.”

Once, she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.

When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.