We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
Lois McMaster BujoldNot that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
Lois McMaster BujoldUtterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Lois McMaster Bujold