“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one’s Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.”
― A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
― A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
“She thought of mothering, which was really another word for being present and caring what happened to someone.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
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