1. But we don’t always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don’t get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled.
Bearers of the Black Staff
2. There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.
The Measure of the Magic
3. They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.
The Gypsy Morph
4. Time didn’t have meaning for him. Time had come to a standstill, the world stopped where it was, everything as still and immutable as the mountains and the sun in the sky.
The Measure of the Magic
5. Time was as thin as hope.
The Gypsy Morph
