Cheng

“Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play
that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest