Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted. - Brandon Sanderson

She’d had so much more time when she was younger. She couldn’t help thinking she’d wasted much of it.

It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth.

But you always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he’ll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.