[I wonder] if in all wars there are moments when generals and soldiers long to walk each other home and speak of random things.
--Justine The Playground of the Gods by Cathy Cash-Spellman
If you are going to traverse thin ice,
you might as well dance your way across!
--Skif -Winds of Fury by Mercedes Lackey
If this is a trial of my abilities - the Gods have no sense of proportion.
--Darkwind Winds of Fate by Mercedes Lackey
If fate is the plot of life, then feeling must be its content. To be known, to be needed, to be loved - this must be the true problem of our society. We see people turning to alcohol, to mind - and mood - affecting drugs, to gambling, to casual sex both hetero and homo, to violence, to cults, to self - destructive behaviour, when these may be poor sublimations for the recognition, interaction, security and love they truly crave. Isn't it an awful irony that some of us must even turn to fantasy to glean some semblance of the companionship we are denied in mundane existence...! We suffer all manner of compulsive behavior, in futile reaction to fundamental inadaquacies of emotion we do not comprehend.
--Authors Note -With a Tangled Skein
We gaze up at the stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
-- Symacchus (384 C.E.)