“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”

“I thought it would be quieter here. [Anna] hadnt meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. The wind in the trees, Bran said. And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when t...”

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”

“This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thingand give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.”

“New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you wont hit Charless mate in front of his father.”

“Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.”

“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.”

“People dont realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any goo...”

“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten anothers dull ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”