“Easy victories aren’t worth winning.”
Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 54)
“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”
— Holly Black, book Black Heart
Source: Black Heart
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