Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus Quotes

“Laugh, I am an idiot,” I say, my voice tinged with a mix of jest and earnest. I stride back to her, dropping to one knee in the pooling water and taking both her hands in mine. “But love is a fool’s task, and I am its willing jester.”

Her smile, though tinged with fatigue, radiates through the encroaching gloom. “Love?” she asks, a whisper in the vast silence.

It’s a question tinted with longing.

“What else could define us?”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“Perhaps it’s because I understand, deep in my heart, that there is no intent greater than love.”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“Do you consider me beautiful?” I ask him this question every day, and each time, my voice carries the freshness of a first inquiry. This isn’t pretense; the authenticity of his response seems to escape my memory, prompting me to seek affirmation anew.

His deep exhale fills the brief silence before he responds. “You realize that you are going to have to learn how to answer that question for yourself? You are like a treasurer, asking me to appraise the same ruby every day. While my intentions may lead me to always tell you the truth—that the ruby is invaluable and stunning—if one day I’m not around, you risk encountering someone who, with less honest intentions, might convince you to undervalue it, to give it away for nothing.”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“Perhaps it’s a tinge of selfishness on my part, a desire for a more exclusive claim on the person who belongs to everyone else just as much as she belongs to me.”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“But what happens now, when that very darkness recoils from her touch? When the shadows that once obeyed me now hesitate, refusing to taint her light?”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“Our love, once pure, became a guise soaked in betrayal and blood. I yearned for a love that was never as it seemed; I chose a tragic end over a love unseen.”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus