One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.  Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.  Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

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.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

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

Ice is for death and endings.