Litfickic

“She sighed and walked over to the tall windows peering into the gloominess of smokefall. A thin scrim of fog huddled against the hills and the moon winked half-lidded in the murky sky that had merged with the horizon. The fire crackled for attention and she swerved to gaze at its throbbing
red-orange wood-heart that held a million days of sunlight.”
― Franciska Soares, They Whisper in my Blood

“Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.”
― Paul Valéry

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”
― Lawrence Sterne

“Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book