Amanda

“If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

“That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen