Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Juliet Marillier
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  1. I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

  2. There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

  3. If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on...

  4. If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

  5. And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

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