I’ll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.
As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside.
Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else.
Tell him that you dreamed of a wolf with porcupine quills in his muzzle. And that the wolf said to you, “As once you did, so I do now. I shelter and guide your son. I will put my life between him and any harm, and when my task is done, I will bring him safely home to you.
I have known beauties and joys that tried my heart’s strength as surely as the tragedies and uglinesses have.
Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
He felt her dim groping towards him, a plea for companionship and comfort. He didn’t want to give it. But he had never been a hard-hearted man. When she invaded his mind, pleading, he had to reach back. ‘You are stronger than you know,’ he told her. ‘Keep moving. Follow the other ones, my copper beauty. Soon there will be better days for you, but for now you must be strong.
At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.
Fitz!’ Motley greeted me. ‘Hello, stupid!’ she added. The.
Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.
Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.
But a wall that will not yield to a battering ram can still be breached by the gentle twining of ivy.
For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one’s Beloved now.
If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.
If a man hits you once, he’ll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I’ve been!
Any future can be!” she replied, laughing at me. “If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?
You can wait a very long time for them to give you your freedom. Taking it might be faster.
Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.
The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
Dying is boring, Nighteyes observed.