"Thanks for sticking around all year, after Ma... and everything. I mean it. You know... I can tell... I see how you look. You're not always happy here... The Forest isn't exciting for you, after living in the city, I guess. Stay a while longer. I think it'll liven up soon" (Leifer, Chapter 1, p. 5).

"He's just Finn. We've been friends too long and I know him too well, you know? And he's still a boy, Doda. If I ever find a man, he'll have to be a man, really a man, to handle me" (Enna, Chapter 2, p. 23).

"Once, people could speak to all things, and that means to me that it's possible for us to learn all those languages again...There are three different gifts- people-speaking, animal-speaking, and nature-speaking. Some people are born with the ability to learn one. I knew others from my home kingdom who had...