You can do this, I told myself. It’s just a battle of a different kind. Like Hua Mulan or Epipole of Carystus, going to battle wearing another person’s identity.
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“He’d captured a mythical beast in an ocean with no water, in a land with no sun.”
― Isles of the Emberdark
― Isles of the Emberdark
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.”
― Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
― Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
“Not to be believed does not at all agree with princesses: for a real princess cannot tell a lie. So all the afternoon she did not speak a word. Only when the nurse spoke to her, she answered her, for a real princess is never rude—even when she does well to be offended.”
― The Princess and the Goblin
― The Princess and the Goblin
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