(At the request of Lizajustme)
You may also know her as Margaret Lindholm, author of for example Assassin's Apprentice.

"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more." 

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"Very little worth knowing is taught by fear." 

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"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead." 

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"The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will." 

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"Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow." 

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"Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it." 

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"Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less." 

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"Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting." 

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"I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding." 

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"The fight isn't over until you win."