"Whichever way he turned there might be some haunting mystery, some enchantment. This way might lie love and fortune, and that way shame and death."
Chap. 3, p. 16

"Sean wondered if there could be a way out. For him, of course, there was the schooner. For his brother there was the Church. But what about the Senora?"
Chap. 3, p. 30

"I mean we Celts are not inclined to be overly skeptical about the Little People, or the mysterious."
Chap. 5, p. 50

"His life in the mountains, the desert, and at sea had sharpened his senses until alertness was a way of life."
Chap. 6, p. 57

"Men do not learn from history. Each generation believes itself brighter than the last, each believes it can survive the mistakes of the older ones."
Chap. 7, pp. 74-75

"Some say this place is haunted, and the place where I left them, but the ways of evil are...