Her reasons were too many and her words too few.

As he lay dying, this is what he remembers.

Looking at Harry like this stilled the words in her throat.

"Our lives are never lived rightly unless they are lived urgently, powerfully, lived with faces turned toward the sun." - A war-battered Shepard learns about love from the different men in her life. Memory. Passion. Constancy. These are the gifts they gave her.

"This is the beginning. The start. This is how they fit." – Krem and Harding find each other in a world torn apart. A story told in brief glimpses.

"He does not know how to live this life when everything in him is telling him that it is lost. He reaches for a past that does not want him anymore." - Nathaniel Howe discovers what dying really means.

"'This will not end well,' he pants heatedly into her neck." - Hawke and Fenris discover the danger of desire. Done for the February challenge of the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers facebook page.

"At night, the loss is harder. Crushed, crying, craving. How do you learn to stop loving?" – Blackwall and the Inquisitor learn to live in the aftermath.

"Nothing seems right in the world unless they are holding each other."

"Fenris frowned. 'You had not told me she was a mage.' 'He has a thing with mages.'" – Hawke, Fenris and Inquisitor Lavellan talk shop.

"There is only stone. Tall, cavernous holds of rock and tunnel and deep, still quiet. She must remind herself that this is where she will breathe her last. There will be no sun to warm her when she dies." After twenty eight years of the taint, the Deep Roads finally call to her. This is goodbye.

"'I want the Arishok's blood on my blades.' She swallows and pulls a deep breath through her nose, soot-filled and heavy with rage." The night is long and bloody when Kirkwall burns and Hawke finds something she hadn't before.

"There's nothing uglier than self-righteousness. And we were rife with it." - She hadn't left the hospital in 14 months. This wasn't the Hermione she remembered being.

Pansy never thought she'd be waiting her whole life.

She was like water. Only, she never thought herself so.

It’s easy to immortalize someone when they’re everything you’re not.

She comes here every night. Draco found her on this one.