Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground. "Yes," I whispered. "Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead." --Bran

I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.