It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond. - Stephen R. Lawhead

The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return.

Arms lose their strength and swords their edge. Then it is good to remember whence came your strength and who holds a sword that is never dull.

I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its mindless hate. I quailed to think of the power that had called it into being and loosed it on the world.