“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”
― Daughter of the Forest
― Daughter of the Forest
“Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.”
― Daughter of the Forest
― Daughter of the Forest
“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Son of the Shadows
― Son of the Shadows
“A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world...”
― Cybele's Secret
― Cybele's Secret
“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”
― Daughter of the Forest
― Daughter of the Forest
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