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.

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

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

Ice is for death and endings.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.