We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
Wars come and go; politics endure.
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
What is fear but courage's shadow?
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!
There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.
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