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I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

There was a great brightness and, um ... Imagine what it would look like if you could see music, or thought.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

He didn't wear his heart on his sleeve, exactly, but he did keep it in a place where I could see it.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.

Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.

This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?

A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.

Our shadows stretched before us across the surface of the world.

Let the ones who seek justice be just.

The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.

He looked at me again and his eyes shone in the lamplight, or with the inner light of delighted anticipation.
His enthusiasm made him beautiful.

My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.

Love is not a disease.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

...emotions fly humans toward art

You're not a villain, I said. Or else we were two villains in a pod.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.

Are we irretrievably broken?
Never beyond repair, good heart.

More insomniacs!' cried the doctor. 'Come in, come in.

You bluffed him? A Porphyrian double ton of fire and brimstone, fangs like swords, claws like ... like swords! And you just ... bluffed him?

There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.

I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.

I do what I have always done. I reach across and bring the worlds together.

Crisis first, love later.

Playing flute was the one thing I knew could make people see a human, not a monster.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

I think I've heard that ballad," I said. "It's beautiful but it ends sadly.

We must show them we're superior and put them in their place. Dominate or be dominated.

Tactile than olfactory - but I could discern nothing else about it.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.

Keeping my smile raised like a shield between us, I curtsied and quit the room.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

I don't mean to imply that they were cowards ... , Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.

Sprinted past him up the stairs, toward the royal family's wing of the palace.

I'm attracting small children," Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. "Shoo it away, will you?

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

He was exactly my height, which surprised me; my awe of him had made him seem taller.

We would be going to war for peace.

I'm awestruck that you had warm cabbages sitting around.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

I was inclined to leave love unspoken.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Kiggs. "You were just a squire when they were banished; technically, you weren't banished at all." Maurizio

I 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.

I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.

Of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition

Was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.

Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.

Your very presence makes other people feel awkward. You stand out when in fact you'd rather not.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still go wrong.

I mistook you for a metaphor.

All is well
or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

You twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

If it can be known, I want to know it.

Rest of the court, to watch the Golden Plays?" "I can't. Tomorrow is dress rehearsal for the Treaty Eve concert.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

Always I hev my fists and my war pipes!

...The Kiggs-Phina way...

Walk with an open heart, and you will hear the call. You will see your task shining before you, like a star.

But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone.

Fond and protective equals love? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.

I'd had more than my share of beautiful today. Tomorrow I'd give some back, restore and replenish the world.

Ah, I could last a long time on those smiles. I would sow and reap them like wheat.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.