When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. - Lois McMaster Bujold

If power was an illusion, wasn’t weakness necessarily one also?

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

“I really like this married-couple cover, for travel,” he remarked. “It suits me.” He took a slightly deeper breath. “So we’ve had the honeymoon, why don’t we have the wedding to go with it?”