Quotes from Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

And what do you believe?"A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning.