“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.”

—  Charles de Lint , book Moonheart

Part 3, Chapter 7 (p. 386)
Moonheart (1984)

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