The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Yet if the truth doesn’t serve us, what does that say about us, eh?

"Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.