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‘I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.’

‘Perhaps you should ask yourself a different question, honoured Miduchi,’ he said. ‘Would the world be any better if we were all the same?’

“Mortal sin or certain death. Death was the option the Knight of Courage would have taken, but the Knight of Courage had never needed to get to the Empire of the Twelve Lakes as badly as Loth did. Abandoning all hope of Halgalant, Loth waded after the murderous wyrm-lover.” Loth thank you for making me laugh

‘I ask your permission, and that of the Knight of Fellowship, to take this woman as my companion in the coming days.’ The way he gazed at her, she might have been a sunrise after years of night. ‘So that I might love her as she has always deserved.’

‘When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.’

“‘We both serve the Mother, Mita,’ she said. ‘Let us see which of us she favors.’”

The one who wears the chains is a thousand times greater than the one who wields them.

Did lovers ever reach the Milk Lagoon, or did they only dream of it?

***SPOILER ALERT SORRY THIS SCENE IS TOO GOOD*** “Their breaths were hushed, held in anticipation of a knock on the door, a key in the lock, and a torch to bare their union. It would light a flame of scandal, and the fire would rise until it scorched them both. But Ead called fire her friend, and she would plunge into the furnace for Sabran Berethnet, for just one night with her.”

“She was lost and found and wandering, all at once. At the cusp of dreaming, yet somehow never more awake.”