Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.
Slipped past them to return to the palace to engage in pointless speculation with Zariya.
Mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over a...
Couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; two realms, two rulers, united in love and a shared dream. It
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
Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces.
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doin...
So you were good enough for the Cullach Gorrym, good enough to marry Dorelei mab Breidaia, good enough to beget Alba a successor, but not good enough for the Queen’s daughter? Urist’s lips curled with...
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...
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I...
Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love.I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate gene...
One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one’s body are connected.
My lord. It is too much, and not enough
Jahno asked with a stymied scholar’s anguish.
It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.
In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts.
I don't think, before that moment, that he truly grasped the nature of what I was. He knew, of course; had always known, and had been the one person who'd never cared for what, but only who I was. I s...
He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.
He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.