I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

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?

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.