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

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

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

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.

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin