Quotes from Ari Berk

And somewhere, buried away deep inside him, a hidden chamber of his heart opened.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

Of course, not all journeys are undertaken for sacred purposes. Some people may undertake journeys for the simplest reason of all: curiosity. They wish to see what there is to see just beyond the next hill, or over the far river, or at the end of the long trail leading towards dawn....

For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?

Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.

You can never go back, really, there is only forward.

Old pain was heavy in the heart, hard to move, and anyway, Dolores Umber kept a tight hold of her pains and grievances. She thought her pain was the last thing she really owned, the last thing that she could keep all to herself. Her very own thing, and she didn't much care for the idea of someone else trying to take that away from her too.

To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.

Though you may be a wanderer, living out your days in exile, home is with you always, in blood-song and bone map, and in the echo of your mother's voice as you tell her favorite tale to your children or the children who gather around you in the land of your exile. Home is your most constant companion.

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.