“She’d always been on the outside of ordinary life, and the one she’d so carefully constructed with her shop had been an illusion too. She’d been marked by birth by her strangeness and her abilities. If the Dark Presence wanted her, perhaps it was because they share something in common–a malevolence cut from the same flawed cloth.”

The Enchanted One by Lora Deeprose pg.243

“. . . she tried to clear her thoughts and figure out what she could do to fix what she’d broken, but nothing came to her. Her sorrow was sharp and brittle like ground glass underneath her skin. There was nothing she could do to change anything.”

The Enchanted One by Lora Deeprose pg.238