Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.