After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

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.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree