If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.
Kristin CashoreTags: independence
Contemplar cosas hermosas es una debilidad que tengo.
Kristin CashoreI'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.
Kristin CashoreI'd like to restrain from cruelty and not be thanked." ~ Katsa
Kristin CashoreShe'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.
Kristin CashoreWhile I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were
Kristin CashoreI told him I'm not going to marry you and hang on to you like a barnacle, just to keep you to myself and stop you loving anyone else.
Kristin CashoreMercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.
Kristin CashoreShe expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.
Kristin CashoreThere's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.
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