Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.
Carol BergOn my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents' predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself - doom is just the hind end of living, after all - but to see the two who birthed me confounded.
Carol BergTags: fantasy
From the instant of our first meeting I judged him so, though it could be said that I was prejudiced. When one is standing naked on a slave-auction block in a wind cold enough to freeze a demon's backside, one is unlikely to have a fair impression of anyone.
Carol BergTags: fantasy
So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?'
'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.
Tags: humor
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
Carol BergOf all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.
Carol BergWe begin our naming.
The names drop into greens that tighten.
Greens that deepen. The wind
has begun its relentless thinking.
Now the red veins in the small burrowed
creatures begin their murmur.
How the urgency of this red spurts inside us.
Another eye wills itself open. Another eye roves.
Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.
Carol BergTags: courage loyalty life-and-death
The world goes on, little Seri," he said. "A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.
Carol BergTags: inspirational uplifiting
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