Cait

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

“Your past is stone, but your future is clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer