Dasha

“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

“But though they receive no worship, it’s the maintenance folk who keep the Empire going. Someone, after all, must do the undignified labor to keep the grand works of our era from tumbling down.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“I offer you an honorable new beginning. I do not guarantee its ending. Attempts fail, but not as certainly as tasks never attempted.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

“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