"you always have a choice. maybe you can't pick where you are forced to go, but you still have a choice. the choice isn't always about what you do, but why you do it.

when i was a soldier, there were some men who fought simply for the money. there were others who fought for loyalty--loyalty to their comrades, or to the crown, or to whatever. the soldier who dies for money and the soldier who dies for loyalty are both dead, but there's a difference between them. one death meant something. the other didn't."

- tam al'thor, in robert jordan's/brandon sanderson's "the gathering storm"