You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it. - Glen Cook

I won’t bore you with their dogma. It’s repulsive and I’m not sure it was related to me truthfully.

There are several huge monasteries—of which Khang Phi is the greatest—dedicated to the preservation of knowledge. The monks do not sort it into good and evil knowledge, nor do they make moral judgments. They take the position that no knowledge is evil until someone chooses to do evil with it.

Man, woman and child, the people of Shadowcatch were privy to the one true secret of the universe: there is always a darker shadow lurking beyond the one whose face you can see.