F.T. McKinstry Quotes

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

Most humans know better than to cross a wizard. A cat does not care.

Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

The light from his torch painted the barren forest in shades of his own reflection, black-haired, gray-eyed and pale for want of a touch. He pulled his cloak close, unable to determine which made him more uncomfortable: the dreary woods or the new moon settling onto his heart like a cloud of moths.

Wizard is as wizard does.

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.

Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us home.

Hemlock's attentions had not only healed Aelfric's body of its wounds but also given him curious sensitivity. Aside from the voice in his mind, he felt things in the natural surroundings: the presence of beasts, the whispers of trees to the overcast skies, anger in the earth and sea. Ravens followed him around as they did wolves. And he had developed a rough ability to see in the dark.