I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?