The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season. - Tad Williams

“Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess,” he said quietly. “Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their conscience with the gift of survival.”
Miriamele thought about the obvious truth of what Cadrach had said as they walked on, but could not understand why it made her so unutterably sad.

She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.

As with all dwellings," she said, "of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.