Made by
shadowsong26
Theme: Literary
- There are many kinds of beauty.
- Kin is not the same as family.
- There is a difference between loving and being in love.
- We break each others' hearts, but we mend them, too.
- O, dear my lord, Let this breast on which you have leant, Serve now as your shield.
- Her smile went through me like a spear.
- I have discovered that a beautiful face and a facile wit can conceal great strength of character.
- Questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
- Never despise a trick because it is simple; the old ploys endure because they work.
- Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt those we love best?
- Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
- Prophecies never know the blood-price they exact.
- Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
- It didn't make sense, not really; but truths of the heart owe nothing to logic.
- It's all right to yearn for things you can't even name.
- Is it worth destroying a thing to save it?
- All knowledge is worth having.
- Genius requires an audience.
- The links that bind one person's ambition and desire to another's fate are complicated things.
- The affairs of humanity tend to be messy and complicated. And at the same time, it's the simplest thing in the world.
- All I'm asking is that you stop treating me like I'm an actor miscast in your own personal tragedy through no fault of my own.
- All is forgiven, though nothing is the same.
- If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.
- How do you wish to die, Admiral? At the hands of numbers, or dreams?
- That is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
- Do you suppose that when we tell our brooding, haughty horde the glorious tale of their parents' exploits, we might leave that part out of it?
- To damnation and beyond. I have sworn it.
- I keep my promises.
- That which yields is not always weak.
- There was life, in all its messy splendor. And always and always, there was love.
From Kushiel's Legacy
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