The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
She went on because there was no going back.
You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
How could you live without human touch? Wasn't that the first thing you knew, when you came into the world and they laid you on your mother's belly? Her hand would come across and stroke your back, an...
Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.
At the end of the parapet, a long black coat lay neatly folded on the wall. At the other end stood my sister and her lover. Tati’s arms were wound around Sorrow’s neck, her body pressed close to his,...
Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to do, for your sake; part of me recognized the kind of man I am, the kind of work I do, the...
So Cu Chulainn asked and he asked, and at length he learned that the best teacher of the arts of war was a woman, Scathach, a strange creature who lived on a tiny island off the coast of Alba.A woman?...
I stared at him.
If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
He’d lost his temper with Erisa once too often, and look what had happened. The stupid woman had tried to run from him, and when she fell she’d killed his son as well as herself.
Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.-Foalan to BrideiTalking about Broichan
You speak like a jealous lover.-Fola to Broichan
Mistress Blackthorn?Fool. Who else would it be?
I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
Each of us wore our memories of what might have been.