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.

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

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

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.

You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.

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

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.