If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.