There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.