All paths are present, always… and we can but choose among them.
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear.
Because when you were born, for the first time, I understood it. Love as thou wilt,” she said, musing. “I have always adhered to the precept of Blessed Elua in my own way. And yet, until you were born, I didn’t truly know what it was to love another living soul. Beyond thought, beyond reason. And I thought, for once, that the gods were speaking clearly to me.
What I wanted to say was I will follow you to the ends of the earth. I will be whatever you ask of me: courtier, savior, lover, and husband, master and slave. Anything, everything.Only ask.
I loved her.
No point in denying it, no point in doubting it. It was unlikely, improbable, and true. If I had to lay my broken heart on the altar of love and let it be destroyed in a glorious blaze to secure her happiness, so be it. I would do it.
Jacqueline Carey / Kushiel’s Dart
“Whip us till we’re on the floor, we’ll turn around and ask for more, we’re Phedre’s Boys!”
“We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we’re Phedre’s Boys!”
“Man or woman, we don’t care; give us twins, we’ll take the pair! But just because we let you beat us; doesn’t mean you can defeat us!”
Perfect.
You have to love their song, but their loss will break your heart
[Top]It is a human failing, to attribute the best of motives to those we know the least, and the worst to those we love best.