For a fleeting instant, in the sad curve of his shoulders, I saw what Comonot could not: the core of decency; the weight he had carried so long; the endless struggle to do right in the wake of this irreversible wrong; the grieving husband and frightened father; the author of all those love songs. For the first time, I understood.
Rachel HartmanI heard you, sought you, and have found you. I have reached for you, across space and sense and the laws of nature. I do not know how.
Rachel HartmanTags: abdo
How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?
Rachel HartmanTags: seraphina
He didn’t wear his heart on his sleeve, exactly, but he did keep it in a place where I could see it.
Rachel HartmanI scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
Rachel HartmanTags: irony insecurity
There are two sacred causes in this world,” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.
Rachel HartmanTags: necessity chance cause help beautiful
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel HartmanTags: wisdom truth knowledge compassion power understanding treasure wondrous
The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
Rachel HartmanTags: heretic patron-saints st-yirtrudis
There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.
Rachel HartmanLove is not a disease...I cannot let them cut you out of me, nor her either. I will cling to my sickness, if it is a sickness. I will hold it close to me like the sun.
Rachel HartmanTags: love
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