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“Respect is elder to convenience.” “And besides,” Tavi said drily, “if you didn’t respect them, they’d eat you.” “Survival is also elder to convenience,” Gradash agreed.
“in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. I see no reason to jeopardize that success.”
hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.
“Raising a child isn’t complicated, love. It isn’t easy, but it isn’t complicated, either.” She tilted her head, looking up at him. “How’s it done, then?” He shrugged. “You just love them more than air and water and light. From there, everything else comes naturally.”
“Fear is an enemy. Respect it. But do not let it conquer you before the fight has begun.”
All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.
