This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe. Patrick Rothfuss
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When I was in Africa with my boyfriend, he had a fever. His fever was so high that he was hallucinating and talking to himself. He even started telling me that I was his sister who had died when he was young. He said that my mother looked just like me except she had gray hair.

He told me that my father was the reason he had come to Africa, so he could find me. He also said that it wasn't my mother's fault for dying when she did, but his. He said that my father hated him and that if I hated him that much, then I needed to hate him too, because it was my father that made him come to Africa.

This is what he said when I asked him what was wrong with him: "It's just the fever" My boyfriend's thoughts were all over the place, but at the time I didn't know how bad it really was. But, after his fever broke, there were some things I wanted him to know. The first thing I wanted to tell him is how badly he hurt me by saying all of those things about me and my parents.

My parents' love for him was pure and they would never have hurt him on purpose; they did not hate him for any reason. The second thing I wanted to tell him is that no matter how much pain he felt or how much guilt he felt over leaving me behind, you cannot bring people back from the dead by wishing it or wishing hard enough .

Source: The Name Of The Wind

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