Horizon (The Sharing Knife, #4)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

while bad memories were plainly bad, it was the good memories, lost in them, that hurt the worst.

“Don’t let fear swallow all your happiness. Don’t forget to take joy.”

the advantage of being a gloomy cuss is that all your surprises are good ones.”

“That wasn’t luck, that was preparation. Know the difference. Preparation, you can control.”

But if a place was home because it held your past, wasn’t it equally so if it held your future?

“Rules aren’t actually made to be broken. They’re generally invented because someone made a mistake or a mess, and folks didn’t ever want to have to clean up after another one like it.”