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The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 11, 2026 07:42PM

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: sirius-black

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“We are shaped by our shaping of the world.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

tags: behaviour, conscientiousness, frankl, freedom, growth, impulse, response, stimulus

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“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
― James Baldwin

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