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“Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess,” he said quietly. “Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.”
“Fear goes where it is invited,”
the more hopeless the struggle, the more crucial it was to struggle valiantly.
If you have a proud and headstrong woman, you would be better off not to judge your success by her obedience.
“Lies, hatred, and greed,” the lector said softly. “They are familiar, age-old enemies. It matters not beneath whose banner they march.”
Strangely, as she spoke her face seemed to grow more youthful, as though her grief were the most vital thing left in her.
As the memories flew by, he again felt the burning pain of the dragon’s blood and the fearful sense of connection to the spinning world, the sickening vastness of the hope and pain of all living things.