Priscilla

“How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“He was as much a fool as any man or woman. He just had enough experience to recognize it. It took a few seasons before a man could put that together.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

“Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,” the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, “Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny