Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)

by Nora Roberts

NEAR THE SHADOW OF THE CASTLE, DEEP IN THE GREEN woods, Sorcha led her children through the gloom toward home.

“Sweet dreams only,” she murmured, touching the charm she’d hung over the beds of her babies. “Safe and sound through all the night. All you are and all you see hold you through dark into light.”

A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.”

Some would say too good to be true, but Iona had never believed that. Good should be true.

“What’s an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them?”

“When you’ve had less than little in some things, you’re grateful for even a spoonful of more.

“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

“Why not ask for all, as you never know what life’s going to hand you?”

Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.

It’s better to see and know you’re a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.”

“Love shouldn’t be hard.” “There I think you’re wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it’s not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.”