“Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.”
― Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.”
― Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“He looked at me as if he’d found redemption in the very thing that was meant to damn him.”
― The Fallen Prince: Book Two of the Crystal Realms Saga
― The Fallen Prince: Book Two of the Crystal Realms Saga
“An apple tree ‘mong wild trees,
My Love is in my sight,
I sit down in his shadow,
His fruit is my delight.”
― Hinds' Feet on High Places
My Love is in my sight,
I sit down in his shadow,
His fruit is my delight.”
― Hinds' Feet on High Places
“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.”
― Hinds Feet on High Places
― Hinds Feet on High Places
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