That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.
I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?
I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
True love comes when it will, not when it's called.
Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.
How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.
In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.
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