Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

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

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.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.