The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

But it was an ending.