Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands.
It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.
Seems like I’ve been waiting for you to come around my whole life, Lee. But a man can’t wait forever and stay a man.
Men can be relentless,” she agrees, “when they think a woman belongs to them.
Hector!” He whips around. “You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me.” He sighs, nodding. “That was unfair of me,” he says. “I’m sorr – ” “And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it.
I love everything about him. I love that he cares so much about honor and duty. I love how, when he’s working hardest to mask his feelings, they’re actually leaking out all over the place. I love the way his hair curls when it gets wet, his slightly crooked smile, the way he smells. When he laughs, I feel it in my toes.
Mara leans over and whispers in my ear, “I know you’re charmingly naive when it comes to matters of the heart, but you just stopped him in his tracks.
For love is more beautiful than rubies, sweeter than honey, finer than the king’s wine. And no one has greater love than he who gives his own life for a friend. My love is like perfume poured out –.
Every place there’s people, there’s badness.
Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.
I’d rather be treated with respect than treated like a lady.” Hampton.
His name was Humberto, and now you’re just being petty.
There’s not a place in the whole world where everyone isn’t willing – no, eager – to give a girl up to a man.
Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine.
Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.
And I refuse to be governed by fear. The life stretching before me is that of a queen. It’s a life I chose. Fought for, even. I cannot – will not – squander it on dread.
It’s utterly infuriating, the number of people I’ve encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God’s will.
If a sweet dumpling took human form, it would look just like Aunt Tildy, right down to the flour-dusting of her gray hair.
Yes, well, everyone is ignorant when it comes to their own life and love.
The Champion must not waver. The Champion must not fear. The Gate of Darkness closes.