Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.
I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I pleased only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group.
Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.
She wears a freedom ring in one ear, you know, the earring that Chalcedean freed-slaves must purchase and wear to prove they have been granted their freedom. I asked her once if she had bought her freedom, or if it had belonged to her mother. She was quiet for a time, and then said it was a gift from her one true love.
It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.
And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.
All men value their own secrets far above those of others.
Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.
It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.
What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.
I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.
There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.
Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I’m lovely.
That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.
Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.
A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else’s strings.
Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.