I can't guess," said Olvia, "why he accepted my invitation. If I had realized he would, I would never have sent it. - Tanith Lee

Now you understand," Rarm said to me. "It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.

Don't judge yourself," he said. "None of us are ever good at it.

Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.