“Failure to plan is planning to fail”

“Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict))”

“A little baby girl trying to soothe her girl of a mother”

“The pain was a river I rode; I could not plant my feet in it or it would knock me down”

“Nobody was to be trusted. The plan that had ensnared her had been the brainchild of her protector, Maxim Childersin.”

“Mosca had been so busy working the oars of her little plan that she had failed to see the iceberg upon which it was doomed to founder. And now here it was in front of her, a towering glacial mountain of selfishness, and she could not understand how she could have missed it. How vast was it? How far beneath the surface did it go?”

“You see, I had been exploring the tunnels of my own mind, and my greatest idea had come to me.""What was it?" Neverfell was fascinated. "I do not know," the Kleptomancer answered, perfectly phlegmatically. "But I am sure I will let myself know when the time is right. You see, anybody who chases a plan, however secretively and indirectly, gives themselves away. After a while you can predict them, work out what they want. So I decided the only way to avoid this was not to know what the plan was, or even the parts of the plan, until I needed them. Nobody could predict me, because I could not predict myself. Nobody could work out what I wanted, because I did not know what I wanted.”