Nikki

“Lancelot was following, slowly, on the dark and narrow path. All about him and from high above, the mighty trees of Pendaran Wood were letting fall their green leaves, gently, on a night in the midst of summer, to honour the passage of the man.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“I couldn’t weep here, any more than I could hope. Of course he couldn’t stay: and much as I wanted him by me, I wanted even more that my friend have what he wanted for himself.”
― John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

“Never make a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Sometimes we must leave things as we find them. And we should recognize that a fact is only a fact because all our wishing cannot make it otherwise.”
― P.B. Kerr, The Cobra King of Kathmandu

“A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea