Alexa

“Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.”
― Duff McKagan, It's So Easy: And Other Lies

“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings