What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.