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The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god. —ARISTOTLE
it is in carrying heavier burdens than we think we can bear that we become stronger.
but the good and the great are two disparate camps that rarely overlap.”
“In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer.”
“When you have lived either a very short time or a very long time—if you’ve lived well—you will be able to love easily, too. Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces.”
But Kip was still speaking. “Don’t judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does. Look at what the Color Prince has done. They’re wrong, Teia. They’re liars and murderers. It doesn’t mean everything we do is right. It doesn’t mean our house doesn’t need a thorough cleaning. I just don’t think we need to burn it to the ground to do it.”
“My folks had a saying: the fact your dog has fleas is no reason to open your home to a wolf.” “My dad used that one, too. But he said, wife, rash, bed, and whore,” Winsen said. Goss said, “A lesson he had to learn the hard way, no doubt.” Ferkudi laughed with them. Then he said, “I don’t get it.” “It’s one of those things, Ferk,” Goss said. “Where if you explain it, it doesn’t work?” Ferkudi asked. He was familiar with those. “Flesh protuberance!” Worst swear ever. Second worst, maybe. For a while he’d used ‘proboscis.’
The future ended.
He told me I should remarry when he was gone. He never wanted me to be lonely, but I couldn’t find a man who compared to him. Problem with being exceptional, as you know. Perhaps great men are content with marrying a woman who is not their equal, but we great women… Our equals are rare enough in the first place, and then most of those we do find have married twits.”
what we see is not determined solely by what is in the world, but also by what is in us. The lens is as important as the light.
And they were flying, and they were holding each other, and they were safe, and they were alive, and they were breathing pure glory, and Orholam’s Eye gazed on them with the approval that only young lovers know, and in that moment Kip knew the difference between love and infatuation, and love and hunger, and love and the longing not to go unloved. And he wanted to know nothing more than this, and he wanted this moment to freeze forever and thought to cease.
