The defeated always remember.
Questions are dangerous because they have answers
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
Love as thou wilt
Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?
In the end, I didn’t know why I loved her to the point of distraction. I knew only that I did.
I will say to you what I have said to others: Blessed Elua cared naught for crowns or thrones. It is a human game, a mortal game. I imagine you will say it was not worth the cost of innocent blood spi...
I have the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.
How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?
How could anyone endure what we had known and still be capable of so much goodness?
Empty yourself of everything, he said. Let your mind rest at peace. Ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches. They grow and flourish and return to the source. Returning to the source i...
Comme ils sont dans l'erreur ceux qui voient en Elua un dieu bien délicat, fait uniquement pour être adoré par les amants aux yeux tournés vers les étoiles. Mais que les guerriers clament donc leur fo...
But Quintilius Rousse's sailors grinned in the saddle, saluting, and rode out in a thunder, horses trampling their own long shadows as they set their heads to the east.
Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d’Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore.
As ever, his grief made my heart ache. Ambition is a dangerous thing, I murmured. One can harbor it unknowing, only to find it sparked into life when the opportunity presents itself.
Again and again, I pushed my memories away. There were days when it was easy and days when it was hard. My love ... was a boulder in my heart. I sought to let go of it and let it sink. Let it sink bel...
For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.
We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the...