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

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

But a living is not a life.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.