Peregrine

“What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

“And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“You'd expect her to see reason,' he muttered.
I don't see why. Most of us don't - we see habit. She'll oppose any modification, reasonable or not, that conflicts with her previously trained feelings of what is right and polite - and be quite honestly convinced that she's showing steadfast strength of character. . .”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.”
― Victor Hugo