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

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

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

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?

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

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