“There is always grief. It is joy that is the rarest thing,”
― The Wandering Fire
― The Wandering Fire
“Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
“He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea may be, or how long ago it fell away. And”
― The Wandering Fire
― The Wandering Fire
“And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.”
― Tigana
― Tigana
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