“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“And at that moment he saw that Merlin was already standing in the entrance of the tent, and Merlin smiled, for he took joy in causing wonder.”
― The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
― The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“By you, I am forever undone.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
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