In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings.