Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

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.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.