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"He wanted a soft moon in his hands and he got a scalding sun."
“And while he loves humans (he was born of one, lived and died as one), what they forget is that he loves them as a god does, which is to say, with a taste for suffering.”
“Let me tell you the truth about men like that--they want soft moons. They want women with just enough crescent to provide a sufficient edge, tender little slivers of light that they can bring home to their mothers.”
“sometimes, love is almost protection enough.”
“And while he loves humans (he was born of one, lived and died as one), what they forget is that he loves them as a god does, which is to say, with a taste for suffering.”
“Let me tell you the truth about men like that--they want soft moons. They want women with just enough crescent to provide a sufficient edge, tender little slivers of light that they can bring home to their mothers.”
“sometimes, love is almost protection enough.”
“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.'
'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.'
'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
“A man’s jealousy is like a child’s, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman’s jealousy is adult, which is very different.”
“...Women are not so, Philip. Their moods vary with the days and nights, sometimes even with the hours, just as a man’s can do. We are human, that is our failing.”
“it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.”
“They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.
Not anymore, though.”
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.'
'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.'
'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
“A man’s jealousy is like a child’s, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman’s jealousy is adult, which is very different.”
“...Women are not so, Philip. Their moods vary with the days and nights, sometimes even with the hours, just as a man’s can do. We are human, that is our failing.”
“it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.”
“They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.
Not anymore, though.”
“She looked like home, like something he could fall into”
“maybe she'd been sanded down into dullness by grief and prayers that went unanswered.”
“people don't react well to their power being beaten out of them.”
“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it.”
“I died at his mouth”
“hold my life for me.”
“Do you believe in reincarnation?” I ask him. “I’m not sure my belief matters,” he says. “If it is, it is, whether I believe it or not.”
“maybe she'd been sanded down into dullness by grief and prayers that went unanswered.”
“people don't react well to their power being beaten out of them.”
“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it.”
“I died at his mouth”
“hold my life for me.”
“Do you believe in reincarnation?” I ask him. “I’m not sure my belief matters,” he says. “If it is, it is, whether I believe it or not.”
