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madonna che fatica incredibile. Azione quasi inesistente che ogni volta dev'essere interrotta per spiegare il sistema magico con una pedanteria unica. Sarò io a finire questo libro o sarà lui a finire me? Solo dio lo sa

"A champion, a hero, a saint, a legend—I made you someone who could never, ever be forgotten." She stepped sideways a little, so that the sun touched her face, and she was suddenly not a shadow but a girl, crying freely, her accent veering back toward the archaic. "Everything that was denied to me, I gave to thee."

« Then came the yew, the branches bowed with frost, your sword resting sweetly at my throat. Then the dragon and the grail, the courtyard and the queen, the bier and the book.

God, please, don't ask me to write it all down again.

It's your turn to tell it, love. »

«You never remarked on such fits. You only folded yourself around me while I shuddered and panted, letting the heat of your skin soak into mine. It was an impersonal courtesy, a service rendered, but still: I lingered longer than I should have, afterward.

Forgive me—a coward so rarely feels safe.»

All boys need a father's love, and they'll do anything to get it, and Arthur had tried being good, and it hadn't worked, so that left only greatness. If only, if only Arthur had had a father there to say, it's all right, this is good enough. You can stop now, I will love you whatever happens, whatever you do, whoever you are. But there was no one there to say it. God would never say stop. And so Arthur never would.

« He would have lovers, and a hundred brothers, and he would be happy, because at long last he'd done what he always dreamed of doing. He'd turned into what he already was. »

«She's been teaching Yeva her language, at Yeva's request. Every evening they spend curled up in her lantern-draped chambers, speaking of infinitives and gerunds. Vocabulary comes easy to Yeva but grammar is hard. Prepositions the worst of all.»

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