Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?
It won’t be disagreeable,” he said. “It can be made quite enjoyable.”“Oh, it had better be,” she said tartly. “I’ve heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I’m not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed.
Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?””Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.
She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman’s existence.
Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.
Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn’t be interesting.
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn’t mine. I don’t want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
Don’t worry, darling. I’ll look out for myself. And I’ve reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.
Fortune favors the brave.”Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, “And the brave make their own fortune!