Many, on the contrary, love and seek to win the Divine." "So do I at a distance, Ayesha, but to come too near to it I do not aspire.

If I did perhaps I might be consumed." "You have wisdom," she replied, not without a note of admiration in her voice.

"The moths are few that fear the flame, but those are the moths which live.

Also I think that you have scorched your wings before and learned that fire hurts.

Indeed, now I remember that I have heard of three such fires of love through which you have flown, Allan, though all of them are dead ashes now, or shine elsewhere.