Denise

“I have found none to follow in my way. None but thee. And thou must go thy way, not mine. Yet will thy kingship be, in part, my own. For I knew thee first. I knew thee first! They will praise me more for that in after-days than for anything I did of magery...If there will be after-days. For first we two must stand upon the balance point, the very fulcrum of the world. And if I fall, you fall, and all the rest....For a while, for a while. No darkness lasts forever.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin