Quotes from Alison Croggon

And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

They obey older laws.

You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?

And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you...

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried deep Dark are my father's halls And carrion fowl and wolves now keep Their ruined walls From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt."-Alison Croggon

But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it's important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.

She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair.

The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.

It's not your fault there is evil in the world" Cadvan to Maerad

Cadvan smiled. "We are all many," he said. "But most of us don't have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It's a lifetime's quest, and it never ends.

The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn.

At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.