Everyone gets scared at times. It’s only the fools who won’t admit it.
No offense, Jaron, but I don’t want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.””Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?””No.””Then you didn’t even get a taste.
It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.
Our country is Germany — one country that should be reunited. We don’t belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We’re not cowards.
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
I never denied being a fool. That’s the difference between us.
You stole it from the master.””Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.
You eat with your left hand. That’s unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?””Can you do it with your left?
If he put us in dresses, we wouldn’t suddenly become women
Afraid of a wooden sword?””Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?
Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.
Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar.”My laughter was tense, but sincere. “Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It’s only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don’t want them around here.
Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can’t. Even I am not that good a liar.
I haven’t don anything wrong.” At least, not for a few hours
I couldn’t see much, but it somehow seemed brighter across the wall, as if the sun gave more of it’s light to the west. Maybe the people there were more selfish, I thought. Because we needed that sunlight far more than they did.
It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.
With a grin, I told her, “I’ll have more than ten minutes’ notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I’ve ever been.
Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.