Sherwood Smith Quote
Looking down at the stiff, cream-colored rice paper--the good kind that came in the books that we had never been able to afford--I was both excited and apprehensive. Remembering my rather precipitous departure from that wood gatherer’s house, I decided that much as I valued my friends, I wanted to read Bran’s letter alone.No one followed me as I walked out. Behind, I heard Oria saying, in a voice very different from what I was used to hearing from her, Come, Master Jerrol, there’s some good ale here, and I’ll make you some bread and cheese…As I walked up to my room, I reflected on the fact that I want to read it alone, and not have whatever it said read from my face. Then there was the fact that they all let me go off alone without a word said, though I knew they wanted to know what was in it. I thought, feeling peculiar. Was this, then, to be my life? To always feel suspended midway between the aristocrat and the vassal traditions, and to belong truly to neither?
Looking down at the stiff, cream-colored rice paper--the good kind that came in the books that we had never been able to afford--I was both excited and apprehensive. Remembering my rather precipitous departure from that wood gatherer’s house, I decided that much as I valued my friends, I wanted to read Bran’s letter alone.No one followed me as I walked out. Behind, I heard Oria saying, in a voice very different from what I was used to hearing from her, Come, Master Jerrol, there’s some good ale here, and I’ll make you some bread and cheese…As I walked up to my room, I reflected on the fact that I want to read it alone, and not have whatever it said read from my face. Then there was the fact that they all let me go off alone without a word said, though I knew they wanted to know what was in it. I thought, feeling peculiar. Was this, then, to be my life? To always feel suspended midway between the aristocrat and the vassal traditions, and to belong truly to neither?
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