Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
Robin HobbLook forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
Robin HobbThat is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
Robin HobbEvery writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
Robin HobbBut change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die
Robin Hobb