If a person was kind, respectable, and sensible, they tended to look the handsomer for it.
“Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.”
― Child of the Prophecy
― Child of the Prophecy
“He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red hair: snow and fire, like something from an old tale. The book I had noticed earlier was on the bench beside him, its covers shut. Around Anluan's feet and in the birdbath, small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny. He did not seem to notice them. As for me, I found it difficult to take my eyes from him. There was an odd beauty in his isolation and his sadness, like that of a forlorn prince ensorcelled by a wicked enchantress, or a traveller lost forever in a world far from home.”
― Heart's Blood
― Heart's Blood
“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Son of the Shadows
― Son of the Shadows
“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”
― Wildwood Dancing
― Wildwood Dancing
“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
― The Singer of All Songs
― The Singer of All Songs
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