When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster BujoldI've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster BujoldToo late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
Lois McMaster Bujold