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“Awful, isn’t it? To love someone so very deeply? To love them enough that you would lose yourself to them, lose everything to them, if it meant they might stay beside you a little while longer?” There was mockery in Corien’s voice, with sympathy close behind. “I loved like that once, as you know. I loved many times before that, but never again since. It’s lonely to be loveless for a thousand years. Lonelier still to build an empire from the ashes of a world destroyed by your own mistakes, and to do that not once but twice.”
My belief is my hope, and hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”
I have many names, the voice replied. But you know me as the Prophet.
“May your ship sail true and your fires burn bright. May your heart think of me while the stars shine their light.”
“Don’t look too close at the woods, my dear, Don’t speak too loud in the night Stay in the glow of our bed, my dear, Keep our candle always in sight.”
He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.
“‘Tell me,’ said Morgaine to her love, ‘will you think of me when I am gone? So far from you I must go, such a journey lies before me.’ And Morgaine wept furious tears, ashamed for him to see her, but Gilduin held her hands and kissed them, and looked upon her anguished face, and suddenly Morgaine felt at peace, for in Gilduin’s eyes was naught but love. ‘There is nothing in this world that I could look upon and not then think of you,’ he said, ‘for in you lies everything I have known, everything I am, everything I will be.’”
“In the stars I draw your hair In the moon I find your eyes In my blood I hold your name In my bones I feel your lies.”
“It was everything,” Simon answered. He heard the brittle sound of his voice as if he no longer belonged to his own body and was listening from somewhere distant, somewhere golden and warm within the light of their rising power. “You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”
But out of everything in the shop, as wonderful as it all was, Eliana liked Simon best of all.
