It’s like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it’s considered a successful marriage. - Peter S. Beagle

We are our own dragons and our own heroes. We must rescue ourselves from ourselves.

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.