One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

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

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?