“Ever since childhood I have suspected you get along better if you respect people’s ways and wishes regardless of your apparent relative strengths.
That doesn’t mean you let people walk on you. It doesn’t mean you eat their pain for them. You need to demand respect for yourself, too.”

—  Glen Cook, book Bleak Seasons

Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 25 (p. 67)

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