How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.