I admit, I prefer an open mind to a closed one.
No era tiempo para enamorarse.
It was like fighting a tide, and in the fight was the same terror: of being swept into deep water, beyond all safety.
Men should have squint lines from looking at the horizon,” the old librarian had said, “not just from reading in dim light.
I’ve never liked to call it that,” cut in Thyon – softly, like a confession. “It’s bitter on my tongue. I think of it as the Unseen City instead.
Names have power, and he was, from infancy, associated with gold.
You think good people can’t hate?” she asked. “You think good people don’t kill?
And so this paradise was like a jewel box without a jewel. There it lay, day after day... , and waited for lovers to find it and fill it with their happiness.
He led, and Ziri knew firsthand how his fearlessness spread like wildfire in the fray. It was what made him great.
A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.
Soul is what matters. Flesh is vessel.
I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.
Wasn’t that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?
Fairy-tale city. From the air, red rooftops hug a kink in a dark river, and by night the forested hills appear as spans of black nothing against the dazzle of the lit castle, the spiking Gothic towers, the domes great and small. The river captures all the lights and teases them out, long and wavering, and the side-slashing rain blurs it all to a dream. This was Akiva’s first sight of Prague;.
Like a star in the cupped hands of night.
Peace is more than the absence of war.
You have more to live for than you know.
I’m a librarian,” he said.
It seemed like just another Monday, innocent but for its essential Mondayness, not to mention its Januaryness. It was cold, and it was dark – in the dead of winter the sun didn’t rise until eight – but it was also lovely. The falling snow and the early hour conspired to paint Prague ghostly, like a tintype photograph, all silver and haze.
The Muse of Nightmares was dead.