“Mithorden:
I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”
― Robert Fanney, quote from The War of Mists
“The wolf was not far away. After only a short time, he crested a nearby hill. His eyes blazing yellow fire. Fierce. For his mistress called. There she knelt. Queenly and yet so wild. Arrow set to bow - spilling out a bloody light.
At the sight of her, passion filled him. It rose in his gut, swelled his chest, then burst out of his throat. It overwhelmed the air and beat against the starry roof. The howl filled the mounds, rang out through the Vale and then rolled into Minonowe.
She had called him and here was his answer.
The spiders were out there. Running. With Luthiel, he would hunt them.”
― Robert Fanney, quote from The War of Mists
Robert Fanney
Born place: The United States
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“That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third party that has arisen between them. Love becomes an entity unto itself; the thing that determines how life is to be lived.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, quote from Harbor
“لا بد أننا جميعا عشنا في أوقات اكتشفنا فيها أنه من الممتع، بل من المريح أن نحط من أنفسنا. حتى ونحن نقول لأنفسنا إننا لا قيمة لنا مرات ومرات، وكأن التكرار سوف يجعل ذلك حقيقة. فجأة نجد أننا تحررنا من كل تلك القيود الأخلاقية التي تدعونا للاذعان، ومن القلق الخانق لضرورة أن نطيع القواعد والقوانين، ومن الاضطرار إلى أن نكز على أسناننا ونحن نتشوف لأن نكون مثل الآخرين. وعندما يحط الآخرون من شأننا، نصل إلى نفس النتيجة التي نصل إليها عندما نبادر نحن إلى إذلال أنفسنا. ثم نجد أنفسنا في مكان حيث يمكن أن ننغمس بمنتهى الأريحية في وجودنا ورائحتنا وقذارتنا وعاداتنا، المكان الذي يمكن أن نتخلى فيه عن كل أمل في تحسين الذات والتوقف عن محاولة تغذية الأفكار المتفائلة حول البشر الآخرين. هذا المكان شديد الراحة لدرجة أننا لا نستطيع إلا أن نشعر بالامتنان للغضب والأنانية التي أوصلتنا إلى تلك اللحظة من الحرية والعزلة.”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from Other Colors: Essays and A Story
“Such strength behind these eyes, that your soul glows through. Blinding. Captivating. Torturing. You may be as stubborn as a mule on a cliff side but any man would find the true meaning of foolishness to ever forget these facts.”
― quote from The Triple Goddess
“The most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, quote from The Geography of You and Me
“Don’t come here to fuck with my head and play games. You don’t test someone’s love by leaving them.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Unteachable
Woman on the Run
Relentless
The Liar's Key
Mao II
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