Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.