Alison Croggon, The Naming Quotes

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.