“I started a war for you. Is that not enough proof of my devotion?”
Source: Thief of Darkness
“I wrote a pep talk recently to myself on a bar napkin: no matter which road you take, it will be both glorious and unbearable. Every road is lonely. Every road, holy. The only error is not walking forth.
Yesterday, a friend in California, when giving me directions, told me I could take the trail toward the tall pines or turn left and find a field of poppies, growing gold and savage at the edge of the valley.
When I asked which to choose, she simply shrugged and said: either way, it’s all heaven.”
Source: Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
“I did not come across the world to lose you now.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“But how could I want such a grey and cloudy day of a life, now that I've seen a rainbow?”
Source: Lady’s Knight
“I ask the old gods to keep you breathing in whatever bed holds you.”
Source: Nearly: Poems
“When they clamour for your attention and your skill, for what you can do for them… I am here to tell you that my life is for you. I’ll give you my every day. I’ll spend all of them worshipping you. Cherishing you.”
Source: Perfectly Matching Again: A Novella For All Seasons
“You deserve to be cared about. You are beautiful, darling. You are strong. And you are brave. You are one of the bravest people I’ve ever met. You may not believe these things about yourself but believe that I know them to be true. Eventually, you will too.”
Source: Kiss of Seduction
“Icarus, no good thing has happened to me that I haven’t wanted to share with you.”
Source: Daedalus Is Dead
“He saw everything he related. It passed before him, as he spoke, so vividly, that, in the intensity of his earnestness, he presented what he described to me, with greater distinctness than I can express. I can hardly believe, writing now long afterwards, but that I was actually present in these scenes; they are impressed upon me with such an astonishing air of fidelity”
Source: David Copperfield
“If the gods set a thousand lifetimes before me, I would walk every one that ended with your hand in mine. In any lifetime, no matter the path, I choose you.”
Source: Darkfire of Caerwynfael: A Slow-Burn Gothic Fantasy Romance with a Stoic, Protective Hero