Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.
Shannon HaleRight now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.
Shannon HaleI'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
Shannon HaleBut in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.
Shannon Hale