How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.
Juliet MarillierAnd as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
Juliet MarillierEven in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.
Juliet Marillier