Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be.

We can do anything you like. Just be with me.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.