Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough.
To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
He was a young man, Gunter Arnlaugson, and tireless after their fashion. There was no shame among the Skaldi, and I could feel his eagerness when he brushed up behind me, his considerable phallus erec...
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.
I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in my own veins,...
I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.
If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.
Suspended between the carefree child of the Sanctuary I had once been and the confident adult I wished to become.
It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life....I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.
It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
Mothers have wept less, bidding farewell to their children. At least, mine certainly did.
We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only...
I went to him unhesitatingly. He drew me against him, his lean body clad in black velvet doublet and breeches, with the de Morhban crest on his shoulder. I felt the dark tide of desire loose in my mar...
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