I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

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.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Nothing comes without a price.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.