He was so worthy of being loved; I didn’t want him to be alone. Something in my expression must have revealed what was on my mind. “No pity, Auntie. The winds do not always blow as the ship desires,” he murmured, tucking me into my chair. “The winds do what I tell them to do.” “And I plot my own course.
Everyone who has ever been in pain knows that morphine and magic are the same.
Feisty, am I? My husband is a member of the Congregation. A posse of men is coming on horseback to accuse me of harming a friendless old woman. I’m in a strange place and keep getting lost on my way to the bedroom. I still have no shoes. And I’m living in a dormitory full of adolescent boys who never stop talking!” I fumed. “But you needn’t trouble yourself on my account. I can take care of myself!
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Like all parents, they were just doing their best from moment to moment.
I want what I shouldn’t want, and I crave someone I can never have.
Before you I was nothing but dust and shadows. You brought me to life. And I cannot survive without you.
Am I dreaming?” “You’re not dreaming,” Matthew said. “And, Diana?” He hesitated. “I love you.” It was what I most wanted to hear. The forgotten chain inside me started to sing, quietly, in the dark.
Vote?” Matthew said, incredulous. “Since when did we vote in this family?” “Since Marcus took over the Knights of Lazarus,” Gallowglass replied, drawing a silver lighter from his pocket. “We’ve been choking on democracy since the day you left.
Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action... Magic is desire made real.
War is such a waste of women’s time.
I can tell you as a scientist Diana, that there’s no such thing as ‘normal’.” His voice was losing its careful softness. “‘Normal’ is a bedtime story-a fable- that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Still, you need him as much as you need the air you breathe, and he wants you as he’s wanted nothing and no one since I made him. So it is done, and we will make the best of it.
You’re like a galaxy born from a dying star.
Why do today’s women think it’s important to open a door themselves?” he said sharply. “Do you believe it’s a testament to your physical power?
No act of creation has ever been painless,” she continued. “Miracles should leave a mark, so that we can remember how precious they are.
Imagine how Nathaniel might drive if he actually was an old lady – a centuries-old old lady, like me. That’s how I will drive for the rest of my days, so long as you are in the car.
It is I who mediates the elements, bringing each into agreement... I make what is moist dry again, and what is dry I make moist. I make what is hard soft again, and harden that which is soft. As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me... Who will dare to separate me from my love? No one, for our love is as strong as death.
But it’s too soon for me to imagine losing you.