His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
If you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.
Look forward, not back, the Hag said. All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
Hope fought hard to stay alive. Even when you thought it was beaten to nothing, burned to ashes, drowned deep, still it flickered away, waiting to be found again.
The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.
A wonder tale can be truer than true, I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the w...
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
You thought you’d never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you’d never even consider it. But you’ve met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect compleme...
Saved my life, Grim said.You saved mine.Good team, then.
It becomes easy, Finbar said. It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you w...
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.
I told you once, said Red, that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these.Those were not the first words, I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.
Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of pati...
Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever...
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