Quotes from book

Fool's Fate

“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”

“the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.”

“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.”

“Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.”

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.”

“Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”