“Things that last are built slowly. Better to be slow and solid than fast and frail.” ~ Maxime Lagacé

 “Snowflakes spiraled downward, settling on her hair and eyelashes. Silence had enveloped the normally bustling street, the quiet so profound that she could almost hear the ice crystals chiming in the clouds: a high, chalky, clear ringing, as though someone were tapping the highest keys on a piano far above the rooftops.”

― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns