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Tinnitgliat
Meu deus quem q escreveu isso? Nem sabe da história direito -_-
You shouldn’t take insults to yourself where a compliment is intended.
At the heart of my discontent, I wanted to be in love with someone the way I had been that first time. I wanted someone I could touch and be held by, someone who made everything else in the world more significant simply by her existence.
Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.
We didn’t have to share a mind to share a heart.”
A conquered people are seldom content to accept foreign rule.
“My name is Selden Vestrit, of the Bingtown Trader Vestrits, fostered by the Khuprus family of the Rain Wild Traders.”
Ela faz o crossover dela
No one lived in the Rain Wilds.
Sabe de nada vc
“Such a strange time in my life. So significant and portentous, and yet, sheltered as I was by King Shrewd, it was the closest I ever came to having a true childhood.”
“Fool. Do you ever long to go back in your life and do something differently?” He took his seat but did not touch the glass. “All men do. It’s a foolish game we play.
I wasn’t weeping. This was pain past weeping. The only thing new about this was admitting it aloud, to myself. “I brought it all down on myself. It was all my own doing.”
And a chain of events that I am not fully privy to exposed that dragon cocoon to sunlight. It hatched. Tintaglia emerged.”
“Monstrous? Immense! You carved a ship’s figurehead in his likeness, and hoped no one would ever guess what he meant to you? Ah, my friend. You manage everyone’s lives and secrets so well and then when it comes to your own … Well. And he doesn’t even know that you love him?”
Althea’s pregnant, and the ship obsesses about the child.”
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
To discover that the truest friend I had ever had was actually a stranger was like a knife in my heart. He was another abandonment, a missed step in the dark, and a false promise of warmth and companionship.
The heart will flee anywhere when it is seeking comfort.
For a savage instant, I hoped the beast would stumble and that she would break her neck.
Same
Perhaps I just needed a friend, any kind of a friend, that badly.
“Sorry isn’t much good, but it’s all I have to offer.”
Why must you take full credit for everything that goes wrong in the world?
“You’ve quite enough messes of your own to clean up, without claiming responsibility for everyone else’s.”
“Not every problem in the world belongs to you alone, Badgerlock. Let others have their share.”
“The water in the kettle is hot,” she pointed out. “If you wanted to stay, you could make tea for us.” It was not forgiveness. It was a second chance to be friends. I was happy to accept it. I got up to find the pot and cups.
Men. If it was raining soup, you’d be out there with a fork.”
But what was a vow? Words said aloud with good intentions of keeping them. To some, they were no more than that, words that could be discarded when the situation or the heart changed. Men and women who had vowed faithfulness to one another dallied with others or simply abandoned their mates. Soldiers under oath to a lord deserted in the cold and lean winters. Noblemen vowed to one cause cast off their obligations when another side offered them more advantage.
You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.
At the same time, the simplicity of the things that this man longed for as unattainable cut to my heart. He wasn’t asking for better wages or more time to himself. Just the small things, the little pleasures that made a hard life tolerable.
King Shrewd had given me a pin and a promise of an education. He had never offered me his love, though I believe he had eventually come to care for me as I had for him. Yet I had always wished that his compassion had been the first thing he had offered me, instead of the last. Toward the end, I had suspected that he shared that vain wish.
“There will always be flowers for Lord Golden.”
It is strange to find that an emotion you thought you had set aside is still simmering under the surface.
It was as if I feared to express the thought, that by speaking it aloud it would gain some sort of reality.
“We know what is real between us, Fitz. What others may wonder about should remain their issue, not ours.”
“You know who I am. I have even given you my true name. As for what I am, you know that, too. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing. But I fear yours is not. You know more of the whole of me than any other person who breathes, yet you persist in insisting that all of that cannot be me. What would you have me cut off and leave behind? And why must I truncate myself in order to please you? I would never ask that of you. And by those words, admit another truth. You know what I feel
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“I love you,” he said quietly. “I set no boundaries on my love. None at all. Do you understand me?”
“We could have gone all our lives and never had this conversation. Now you have doomed us both to recall it forever.”
“Did you ever truly believe I might seek from you something that you did not share my desire for? Well do I know how distasteful you would find that. Well do I know that seeking that from you would irreparably damage all else that we have shared. So I have always avoided this very discussion that you have forced upon our friendship. It was ill done, Fitz. Ill done and unnecessary.”
E DIGO MAIS!!
“Don’t flatter yourself, FitzChivalry. I doubt you would have been worth the wait.”
In the welter of my own concerns, I too often forgot that other people had burdens just as heavy.
“It seems a shame, FitzChivalry, that I am so seldom able to speak to you. I regret the shams we must make, for they keep us apart. I miss you, my friend.” I departed from her, but when I went, I carried those words with me like a blessing.
For when we are cared for by someone, or when we care for someone, that is the beginning of the bond.”
“You’ve hurt me sometimes. You’ve said some cruel things to me, and acted in ways I don’t approve. And I’ve done the same to you. But, it’s as you said, Starling: fifteen years. When people have that much history together, we tend to take everything for granted. We accept as given the faults as well as the graces. How many songs have you sung before my hearth, for me alone? How many meals have I cooked for you? Fifteen years of knowing one another goes past likes and dislikes, into simple being. We’ve been careless of one another’s feelings, even as Chade and I are careless of one another.
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But let me assure you of one thing. No matter how the years may pass for us, even though we never share a bed again, when we are old, I will still hold you high in my regard. Always.”
Did I completely believe all I said to her? No. But, despite all, she was a friend, and she needed. The words I gave her eased that need, and cost me nothing.
Someone stroked the hair back from my brow and took my hand. I thought it was the Fool. I tried to tighten my hand on his slender one, to somehow let him know that I would beg his pardon if I could.
“Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?”
gossamer
“I don’t think any two pains are ever exactly the same,
Our fathers were very close, you know. It was very difficult for them to be separated when Chivalry moved to Withywoods. They missed one another deeply.”
