The White Tree (The Cycle of Arawn, #1)

by Edward W. Robertson

"Don't think of it as hopeless. If you had no name for it, would that mean it doesn't exist?

"The one twenty or thirty years after the one before it. When a new group of eager young men had had time to grow up without its memory and decided it was time to leave their own mark on the world."

"What is it with you heathens? Always searching for a contradiction.

denial of men's desires is the gods' way of saying hello."

through the danger of the city to the relative peace of the wilds;