True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

What is fear but courage's shadow?

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.