“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“<> I love you... I want you... I need you. The words chanted in her head with the beat of her pulse, repeating over and over. His voice - or was it hers? - grew more insistent with each utterance. <> Come to me. Give yourself to me.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“The gods listen, Rain. Put a thought out there often enough, and they'll think it's what you want.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Two lovers, two hearts, one soul.
Only joined can they be truly complete.
Only joined can they survive the darkness.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“..."His sigh spoke of fear and regret mingled with grim acceptance. 'Teach her,' he said. 'Teach her to fight. Teach her to defend herself, and teach her to kill. The five of you must be her chatoks in the Dance of Knives. Teach her as you have taught no other. Give her everything. Hold nothing back.'
'Rain...' Bel murmured, his eyes troubled.
Rain waved off his unspoken objection. ' She is a Tairen Soul, and we Tairen Souls were born for war. I may not like this path the gods have set before her, but Farsight is right. I must do everything in my power to ensure she is prepared to walk it'...”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Shei'tani... wilt thou swim with thy beloved in a river of dreams?”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Pain is life. Pain is life. Pain is life.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Every Fey warrior and shei'dalin born in the Fading Lands learns very early in life that, like it or not - fair or not - there will be many days when they must decide between a bad choice and a worse one. Today is such a day.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“Death offers us hope, at least. Not for this life, but for another.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
“What in the Haven's name just happened?"
Dazed and still trembling from the overload to her senses, Ellysetta floated in Rain's arms, her limp body draped across his, incapable of autonomous movement. She could barely think straight, let alone summon the strength to actually move.
Rain's chest rippled as he dragged in a shuddering breath. "I don't know." His voice came out hoarse, raspy. He swallowed, then tilted his chin against his chest to glance at her. A grin twitched at the corners of his mouth. "But I hope it happens again.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Queen of Song and Souls
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“Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“Cortical maps are dynamic, and can change as circumstances alter. Many of us have experienced this, getting a new pair of glasses or a new hearing aid. At first the new glasses or hearing aids seem intolerable, distorting - but within days or hours, our brain adapts to them, and we can make full use of our new new optically or acoustically improved senses. It is similar with the brain's mapping of the body image, which adapts quite rapidly if there are changes in the sensory input or the use of the body.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
“I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
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