Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 1

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

we attempt such histories not to preserve knowledge, but to fix the past in a settled way. Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and

“It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.”