Note: As of this time, this section is only linked to the Books, Comic Books, Shows and Song (Music) sections even if these people appear in other sections of the website. Also - people associated with the Sooner Football and Stamp Collection sections are not included here unless they've appeared in one of the other sections as well.
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness...
...you don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment.
As for happiness... I don’t think you can give that to anyone, if they don’t have it in them. However, it’s certainly possible to give unhappiness - as you are finding.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
Our officer cadre thinks that mercenaries have no honor, because they can be bought and sold. But honor is a luxury only a free man can afford. A good Imperial officer like me isn’t honor-bound, he’s just bound.