I don’t want power. I just object to idiots having power over me. - Lois McMaster Bujold

"Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?"

"What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

There is a great deal of sanity to be saved in letting the past go, and moving on.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.