Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die