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"There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her."
"Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush."
"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."
"The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I."
"If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time."
"Lord that she might be safe. She and my children."
"Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary."
"...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?"