" Again she dances on the edge of my consciousness, laughing at me in my dreams. This is only fair. I cast myself as her fool from the beginning. When I told her she could have anything of mine; she plundered my heart, dazzled my mind, taking whatever it was of mine that she pleased. "

― Maddy Kobar , From Out of Feldspar (The Veerys of Dove Grove, #2)