Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart’s a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces...
Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she w...
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
A strange mood settled over the City: proud, defiant, hostile, despairing. All of these things at once. War was coming.
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on.
It occurred to me, trying not to hobble in my too-tight slippers, that attire was another form of concealment.
I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar
But it’s a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
„To, co se podvolí, není vždycky slabé.
There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. And
It wouldn’t last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment of the respite.
And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
Non c'è nulla che non valga la pena sapere.
Nell'amore, comunque si manifesti, siamo più grandi della somma delle nostre parti.