PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a
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“Is that what he thinks of me? That I damned him? He had it all wrong, she thought. He had no idea. But I didn’t. I saved him.”
― Shorefall
― Shorefall
“ said Berenice, said Sancia, ”
― Shorefall
― Shorefall
“yet she could not help but feel a tremendous, powerful intelligence in those blank, golden eyes, a mind that watched her with a disturbing indifference, like Sancia were no more than a raindrop wriggling its way down a windowpane…”
― Foundryside
― Foundryside
“Then she felt his hands. One on her knee, slowly slipping to the inside of her thigh and sliding up to her crotch. The other gripped her wrist, his fingers biting into her flesh and bone. “One hand gentle,” he whispered to her. “And one hand firm. That’s the wisdom of kings—yes?”
― Foundryside
― Foundryside
“Sancia had no idea what she had done. But she did understand one thing, in some wordless fashion: the Sancia that the stars touched right now was slightly less human than the one they had touched the night before.”
― Foundryside
― Foundryside
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