Quotes from Kristen Britain

Like joy's brooch you brought back to us, they always fine their way home. These brooches are curious things. More curious than you know. New riders Will be called to the service, and they Will wear these same brooches. With the brooches they Will discover new talents and use them. Ween they retire from the service, or die, the brooch Will call out to someone new. It has always been this way.

Karigan," Alton said. "I would . . . I . . . well, it would please me . . . What I want to say . . ." One moment he was speaking as a polished aristocrat should, the next he couldn't speak at all.

Love is not stupid. It's just difficult when it happens this way. I think you're doing the right thing, trying to get on with life and beyond something that can't happen.

Karigan, meanwhile, only half-listened, her mind wandering to thoughts of her pillow. She loved her pillow, and it loved her back. It was so soft with its downy filling, so comfortable.

entering his domain. She strode in and

Alton said. "Sure

Karigan?" Estral said. "What do you see?" Death and gods and duty, she thought.

Abram spoke long into the night. His stories took shape slowly and deliberately

merchant" and "Corsa.

You suspect a trap?

Expression, voice, and even gestures can tell one much that is not revealed in words.

Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.