“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”

“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate, true friendship. Sometimes war came.You did what you could to shape your own peace, before you crossed over to the night and left the world behind, as all men did, to be forgotten or remembered, as time or love allowed.”

“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies. ”

“How we remember changes how we have lived.Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”

“We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]”

“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”