Ma al di sopra di tutto c'è l'amore. E se desideriamo essere più che umani, è quella la stella che dobbiamo seguire.
Tis strange how many leavetakings one life can hold.
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endure...
After you, it's all cheap tequila.
Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
There’s glory in it, he acknowledged. Dagda Mor! It’s why I like to fight. When the battle-frenzy fills you, you feel like a god, I think. He paused, remembering. But then you hear a friend’s voice be...
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.
Whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn’t want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history and geography.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.
So I leave flowers; spring flowers, then summer flowers. I gather the red and orange and yellow trumpet flowers, for a trumpet is a thing that makes a loud noise like a shout, and I tie their vines to...
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...
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...
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 star by which we must set our s...
Poets in their chambers began to scribble notes.
One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one’s body are connected.
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
On my knees, I touched the tip of my tongue to my lips, catching a drop of his seed. Pleasure-chamber. My very skin shivered, anticipating the lash. As you wish, my lord, I whispered. It is not needfu...
You're better off, d'Aiglemort said dryly. Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.
It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason.
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