You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

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.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.