" Most people ebb and flow in torment between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet, they do not know how to die. Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a maston to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave to fear. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of all political powers. —Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)