... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.