In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.