Jonas Dröge

“Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.

The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.

But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

I’m certain some will feel threatened by this record. Some few may feel liberated. Most will simply feel that it should not exist. I needed to write it anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You don’t know this yet, darling, because you haven’t experienced that moment when the twisting squeezing crush of your muscles and the urge to expel and to scream at once results in this small mass of humanity that squalls and breathes and comes to rest against your stomach, naked to your nakedness, dependent upon you, blind at that moment, hands instinctively trying to clutch. And once you close those fingers round one of your own…no, not even then…once you look at this life that you’ve created, you know you’ll do anything, suffer anything, to protect it. Mostly for its own sake you protect, of course, because all it is really is living, breathing need. But partly you protect it for your own.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“Kinder stehlen einem mehr als das Herz, mein Liebes. Sie stehlen einem das Leben. Sie holen das Schlechteste und das Beste aus uns heraus und schenken uns dafür ihr Vertrauen. Aber der Preis ist hoch und der Lohn gering, und es dauert lang bis man ihn ernten kann. Und am Ende, wenn man sich darauf vorbereitet, das Kind ins Erwachsenenleben zu entlassen, tut man es in der Hoffnung, dass das was zurück bleibt, größer - und mehr -sein wird als die leeren Hände einer Mutter.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph