Exile's Valor

A man says one thing, and does something else, and they believe the words and not the actions.

When you mourn for too long, you start to forget how to feel joy.

:They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn’t, it is now.:

He cannot dispense the law, if he follows it not himself. He cannot dispense the law, if he thinks himself immune from it. He cannot dispense the law, if he will not deal it to his fellows in the same measure as he does to those whom he has in charge.

the credo that “there is no one right way.

Strange, that whoring was tolerated, if preached against, but an honest marriage was absolutely forbidden . . . on the grounds that it was a distraction to the soldier.

Why would anyone want to be a Queen?