That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

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.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.