It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

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

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

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

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.