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She has become for him a safe harbor, a home that will not be swept away, or burned down, or swallowed into the ground. Isn’t that enough?
“Many perils could fit between the sounds in “should be.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Tress, of course, underestimated the human mind’s ability to believe whatever the hell it wants.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“We must take care not to let the bliss of the present fade when compared to supposedly better days. We’re happy, sure, but were we more happy then? If we let it, memories can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“The imprecision of our language is a feature; it best represents the superlative fact of human existence: that our own emotions—even our souls—are themselves imprecise. Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“That inspires me. We each make our own lore, our own legends, every day. Our memories are our ballads, and if we tweak them a little with every performance…well, that’s all in the name of good drama. The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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