Funilesh

“A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I know it doesn't sound very nice, Harry, but then neither does damaging yourself for the sake of others, as you will then require fixing, and others will be damaged in the attempt, and so it goes on and on and on, and frankly everyone ends up a worse mess than they were to begin with.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“I will protect those I hate. Even if the one I hate most is myself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer