Are you asking me if there is a god?′ he said, still in that soft voice. ‘All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.
Love is like water from the ocean.” Damiana said. “You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That’s what love’s like.
But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.
To some extent, it doesn’t matter who we are or where we came from – what kind of family brought us into this world,′ Josie said softly. ‘We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.
She should leave you. Or you shouldn’t leave her. I haven’t worked it out yet. But you shouldn’t be apart.
For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...
Everybody’s afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.
He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.
I have changed for the last time – this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.
He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.
Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.
Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.
My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
I was Amazement – I was Desire – I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?