“Because youve survived, there is a next strategy.”

“This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.”

“You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.”

“Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.”

“Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.”

“You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a lit...”