Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

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.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.