Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.