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.

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

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

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

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

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