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.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

He was dead. He just didn't know it yet.

The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.