Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.