"That which you are, you are. That which you are born to do...do!...You stand not unopposed, for there is one who is your bane. You stand not alone, for behind you...I do not understand...Something...something vast, something distant, something evil" (pg. 13.)

"Arutha was a private person, ill-humored when it came to revealing deep feelings, and he was doubly sensitive to any question involving Anita. He was impossibly in love with the slender young woman, intoxicated with the way she moved, the way she sounded, the way she looked at him. And while these were possibly the only two men on all Midkemia to whom he felt close enough to share his feelings, he had never, even as a boy, shown good grace when he felt he was the butt of a jest" (pg. 16.)

"I've had a wonderful time with you. I've feelings I couldn't...