Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.