Winter's Fury (Furyck Saga, #1)

by A.E. Rayne

You may be fighting with a sword, or your hands, or an axe, but mostly I think, you’re fighting with your mind. That’s what my father taught me.’

‘You see, love can feel as though your heart will burst with happiness. And love can feel as though your heart will break with pain. With true love, there’s no easy middle ground. Just happiness or pain.

I have seen many things, some of them far into the future, but I don’t believe we can’t change them. Why else would the gods show me what’s coming? It’s a warning, isn’t it? They’re giving us a chance to do something. To stop the bad things from happening.’

‘Time will do that to memories,’ Morac said wryly. ‘It twists and shapes them into whatever we want them to be. Whatever comforts us and allows us to sleep at night.

The threads of our lives are often pulled in different directions, far away from what we may have imagined was being woven for us.’

Sometimes, all we have are dreams to hold onto, so it’s best to make them grand.’

‘If you only focus on the pain at the end, you’ll have an empty life, filled with fear and loneliness. Death will claim us all, eventually, you can’t stop that. But you can choose how you live before it does.