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She searched her heart and knew, with an enormous grief, that it was his, it had not come back to her after all. Yet even so, and most terribly of all, she knew what was about to come, what she was going to do."

I'm so fascinated by this relationship! I want to just hate Brandin but GGK is shaping his character in such a complex manner...layers of layers...

Fearing the moment when Dianora meets Baerd again!

In the silence that followed Devin felt a sadness come over him, an echo of his mood at the end of the night. A sense of the terrible spaces that always seemed to lie between people. The gulfs that had to be crossed for even a simple touching.
And how much wider those gulfs must be for men such as these two, with their long dreams and the burdens of being who they were, and what.

Love all the nuances!

This chapter gives me hope there will be happiness for Baerd at some point. I really like him! Very interesting and kinda abstract happenings as a whole. On to chapter 12 and back to my other favorite Devin :)

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk."

I always loved the romantic fatalism...

Wizards! More of them......I would really enjoy a little bit more magic in here ...all in all :)

He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and not in shame. Rooted in the land of his fathers, standing before the home of his family he looked towards the sun and let a name burst forth from his soul.
‘Tigana!’ he cried that all should hear.

I'm crying .....Kay is breaking my heart ...

Hmmm I'm smelling a love triangle......hopefully not :)

...music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of detail. The sort of precision, my lords, that would have precluded the carelessness that has marked tonight.


Love it!

"In the deepest inward place where he performed the complex act of dealing with his feelings for his father, ..."

I just can't even .......how someone could possibly phrase his prose in such an insightful and mesmerizing way ...❤