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1 " Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated. "
― Alison Croggon , The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4)
2 " Some say an army of horsemensome an army on footothers say ships laden for warare the fairest things on earth.But I say the fairest sighton this dark earthis the face of the one you love.Nor is it hard to understand:love has humbled the heartsof the proudest queens.And I would rather see you now stepping over my thresholdthan any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship. "
3 " Perhaps Dernhil knew there was no time. He had foresight..." Cadvan sighed and looked away. "But he was ever one who looked clearly into his own heart. That is the beauty of his poems. Would that all of us were so lucid. "
4 " By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars. "
5 " I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck "
6 " The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life "
7 " I have all faith in you. I will look to your coming when spring walks in the land. "
8 " I am what I am, all the things that have happened to me, all the things I have ever learned, as well as all the things that were born inside me. "
9 " Everything is difficult," she whispered. "Maybe that's something else that I've learned. "