Hakim

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!"
"I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson