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I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant togeth...more

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This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If on...more

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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

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I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love wi...more

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A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. ...more

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Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was m...more

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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

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Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer ...more

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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when yo...more

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I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

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My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, so...more

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Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town,...more

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I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is somet...more

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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

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What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.