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

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

“You found us a way out. I'll find us a way home.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“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