“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 ...”

“The trail through the pines and beech trees was bright red. He was surprised the other human couldnt see it. She was walking slowly, not far from him. He could smell the moisture on her hot skin. S...”

“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...”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.”

“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura, creature, has in...”

“Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And theres nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid gettin...”

“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.”