Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart. - Patricia A. McKillip

But dear, you hate to sew.

I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.