Dasha

“When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Horizon

“You have stood at the crossroads and chosen, and like Cassiel, you will ever stand at the crossroads and choose, choose again and again, the path of the Companion.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“By your left hand, I’d say you’d had a sweet and true love in your short life. A love that ended only in your death. Yet here in your right hand, I see a love that wends its way in and out of your many years. That faithful heart has been absent for a time, but soon to return to you again.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Civilization is often a task that is only barely managed. But harden your heart and slow your blood. The towers of justice are built one brick at a time. We have more to build yet.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup