Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.
Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.
All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
Mothers have wept less, bidding farewell to their children. At least, mine certainly did.
Raised on
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.
Tis strange how many leavetakings one life can hold.
They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel...
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
The enemy of fear is not courage, Jahno translated for her. The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our h...
Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one? Zariya considered the question. If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man.
Spontaneity is the province of youth
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
So it began. It ended as it always does, with such things; he had a full pleasure-chamber and flagellary, the Duc de Morhban, and he took me there, in the cool depths of the earth beneath his castle a...
One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one’s body are connected.
Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again...
If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.