Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it.
To one who stopped living a millennium ago, I say, “Show me how to live.
Accept that you’re outgunned? Stay on the floor and don’t even try to fight? What kind of life is that?
Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue.
Have you never seen a horse before, lass? They doona answer to ‘horse.’ They have no idea they are horses. ‘Tis like sauntering into the forest, saying, ‘Here, boar, boar, boar. I should like to roast you for dinner.
But Band-Aids for my disease aren’t what I’m after. I want a surgeon to perform an operation that leaves a deep incision where something nasty used to be, followed by a scar to remind me every day that it’s over and I survived.
You don’t grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.
That had taken enormous courage. To love someone you knew wanted someone else, too, but had, for whatever reason, chosen you.
As long as women walk this earth, I’ll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I’m done.
Some of us are born more than once. Some of us re-create ourselves many times.
Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves.
Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn’t merely traveled through time – she’d been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart!
Life is short. At the buffet of it, who doesn’t want the best dessert?
I feel stronger in the chapel. Here, the divine defies the devil at our door. Faith is an unquenchable flame in my heart.
Drustan didn’t tell me either. He regretted that later, when I kissed Dageus because I thought he was Drustan. Drustan didn’t care for it one bit. They’re possessive about their women, but I’m sure you know that. I’m Gwen, by the way, Drustan’s wife.
Thing is, we love the game we play, the way we provoke each other, we thrive on it. And that was a trait I couldn’t wait to explore in bed with him. People say opposites attract and that’s true, they do – combustively, and short-term. I think it’s those with like minds and hearts that succeed long-term.
Theories are a fluid road map for solving a mystery and, if broached with an open mind and scrupulous attention to detail, they grant the answers you seek.
I think that’s what love is; holding someone sacred, honoring them, protecting them, living up to the very best of them.
A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.
All good coups begin with the deposing of the current leader.