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

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

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.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.

It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.