“The shiny black nose of a fox appears through her door before the rest of it steps tentatively across the wooden floor to where shes cooking. A pile of childrens clothes lie discarded in a corner o...”

“You dont let many people behind that wall of yours do you? No I dont because basically people are shit. They have let me down over and over so now I choose them very carefully.You have let Yvan in,...”

“Tuoni takes her by the shoulders and turns her to face him. Remember this Anya. Dreams have power; they show old truths you are too blind to see on waking. They make you remember memories that are ...”

“He felt the magic pouring through his body. The tattoo twitched and with a shout of pain Vasilli could not hold in, the creature pulled itself from his body. It flopped, bloody as a newborn onto th...”

“Squinting in the darkness Anya could just make out a strange curving symbol scratched into the bark. Baba Zosia scored a line through it, disfiguring the symbol. Anya felt something in the air chan...”

“Can I have a final request in case I dont make it?Anything. I havent been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan, she whispered. I am so afraid. Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his h...”

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a par...”

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”

“It was a though wed been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”

“The trail of dating sites relying heavily on Facebook is littered with failures.”