To laugh is to dare, because laughter dares fate and sorrow and the weight of all injustices.

Then may mercy save her from a man who loves as you do.

Here is the beginning of the path. As yet, I do not know where it will lead, but I ask you to trust me and to trust in the future.

There is a winter ahead such as I think we cannot imagine, but remember that spring always follows.

She will be your death. She will be everyone’s death.” “She has failed most miserably at being ‘everyone’s death.’ She’s effectively harmless, Membricus.” “No woman is ever harmless!

When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

There most always be hope. Fate always leaves a hope somewhere, and I intend to find it.

I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul’, said Neville. ‘Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?’ ‘Because,’ said Mary, ’when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?