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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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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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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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Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, ...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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What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.

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It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sight of her. But her ...more

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They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

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The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.

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But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even tho...more

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It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.