“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.”
“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.”
Alison Croggon
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
Alison Croggon“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”
Alison Croggon“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
Alison Croggon“...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.”
Alison Croggon, The Naming“The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.”
Alison Croggon, The Riddle“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”
Alison Croggon, The Riddle“She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.”
Alison Croggon, The Naming“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.”
Alison Croggon, The Riddle“Some say an army of horsemensome an army on footothers say ships laden for warare the fairest things on earth.But I say the fairest sighton this dark earthis the face of the one you love.Nor is it hard to understand:love has humbled the heartsof the proudest queens.And I would rather see you now stepping over my thresholdthan any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.”
Alison Croggon, The Singing“The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.”
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