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"muy lento una vez termina el enamoramiento inicial, se hace cuesta arriba; no tan ingenioso como se cree pero ingenioso de todas formas" — Jan 28, 2025 10:47AM
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“It did not have the makings of a cozy situation for anyone but Mordred, who seems to relish being hated for the love of being hated.”
― The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere
― The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“Innocent?” He was incensed at her suggestion he was somehow responsible for this mess. “I’ve done nothing wrong, I intend nothing wrong. I am innocent!”
“Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It’s not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.”
“Even when it’s stupid to try?” he asked with savage sarcasm.
“Especially then,” she replied sweetly. “That’s how it’s done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That’s how you do it.”
― The Mad Ship
“Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It’s not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.”
“Even when it’s stupid to try?” he asked with savage sarcasm.
“Especially then,” she replied sweetly. “That’s how it’s done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That’s how you do it.”
― The Mad Ship

“-Adiós, Braenn. Salud y cuídate. Vive, Braenn, vive tan largo como tu árbol. Como Brokilón. Y otra cosa...
-¿Sí, Gwynbleidd?
-Fácil es matar con un arco, muchacha. Y también fácil es soltar la cuerda y pensar que no soy yo, no soy yo, que es la flecha. En mis manos no hay sangre de ese muchacho. La flecha lo mató, no yo. Pero la flecha no sueña nada por la noche. Que tú tampoco sueñes nada por la noche, dríada de ojos azules. Adiós, Braenn.”
―
-¿Sí, Gwynbleidd?
-Fácil es matar con un arco, muchacha. Y también fácil es soltar la cuerda y pensar que no soy yo, no soy yo, que es la flecha. En mis manos no hay sangre de ese muchacho. La flecha lo mató, no yo. Pero la flecha no sueña nada por la noche. Que tú tampoco sueñes nada por la noche, dríada de ojos azules. Adiós, Braenn.”
―

“En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio, y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenósele la fantasía de todo aquello que leía en los libros, así de encantamientos, como de pendencias, batallas, desafíos, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles, y asentósele de tal modo en la imaginación que era verdad toda aquella máquina de aquellas soñadas invenciones que leía, que para él no había otra historia más cierta en el mundo.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote

“Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped.
"Just what?" the king prompted wickedly.
Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves.
The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?"
"Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded.
"I am. What's your excuse?”
― The King of Attolia
"Just what?" the king prompted wickedly.
Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves.
The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?"
"Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded.
"I am. What's your excuse?”
― The King of Attolia

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