“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“It is enough that, even for a moment, I had a son like you. It is enough that Hiroshi, Nagasa, and Izumo will have a brother like you to look up to as they become young men themselves. It is enough,” she told herself, even though she would never hear him laugh with his little brothers again, never watch him bring beauty to another kata, never see that boyish smile, with those dimples, deepen into the smile of a man. For a moment, her hands had been full of pearls. She rocked and repeated, “It is enough.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“Listen, son… when I was your age, I had to face truths that seemed to break the world. That’s what happens when you come into contact with people who aren’t quite like you. You learn over time that the world isn’t broken. It’s just… got more pieces to it than you thought. They all fit together, just maybe not the way you pictured when you were young.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
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