Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.

Determination could easily become obsession.