“Oh, you’re reading your secret book. Sorry,” he said. Though his face didn’t show any contrition Raziel knew he meant it. Hoeru was close to Raziel’s age and they’d been roommates for years, ever since Dominic brought the changeling in. He was probably Raziel’s closest friend. Reading the changeling could be difficult but Hoeru was always candid with his words.
“Secret book?”
“Is it not a secret?”
“No! I just don’t like people knowing about it.”
Hoeru narrowed his eyes and cocked his head.
“Isn’t that what a secret is?”
“No. Well… yes. Kind of. It’s complicated.”
“Everything human is complicated. So what’s in your not-secret secret book?”
― Fate's Pawn
“Secret book?”
“Is it not a secret?”
“No! I just don’t like people knowing about it.”
Hoeru narrowed his eyes and cocked his head.
“Isn’t that what a secret is?”
“No. Well… yes. Kind of. It’s complicated.”
“Everything human is complicated. So what’s in your not-secret secret book?”
― Fate's Pawn
“Boson forces don't exist in Quantum space. The Light of the World is only found this side of the Timewall.”
― Matching Configurations
― Matching Configurations
“I hope these words will be of some help and comfort to those who read them.
Nobody knows when they will be tested and there are no right or wrong answers, we are all of us lost when tragedy comes to call. All we can ever do is to be there, give love and do the best we can, often that is all it needs.”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
Nobody knows when they will be tested and there are no right or wrong answers, we are all of us lost when tragedy comes to call. All we can ever do is to be there, give love and do the best we can, often that is all it needs.”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
“Not-knowing is always more thrilling than knowing. Not-knowing is where hope and art and possibility and invention come from. It is not-knowing, that old, old thing, that allows everything to be renewed.”
― Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
― Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
“The music grew louder, faster, as we saw an empty couch on the balcony and ran to get it, pushed aside another couple darting for the same thing, but it was ours, and we smiled wide, laughing at our fortune, our couch.”
― Slow Down
― Slow Down
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