Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then. - Orson Scott Card

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?

When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.