Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.