He took himself off to Turkey, stopping on one foot at the doorway for some parting advice. 'You'll have to practise short landings before you go to Bath; and avoid Yarmouth in a heatwave. It's all yours now, mate, and the best of British luck.'
"fireheart, why do you cry?"
"because i am lost. and i do not know the way"
"you have been very brave," her mother said. "you have been very brave, for so very long"
"but you must be brave a little while longer, my fireheart"
"you must be brave a little while longer, and remember.."
her mother placed a phantom hand over aelin’s heart.
"it is the strength of this that matters. no matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home"
"it is the strength of this that matters, aelin"
"you do not yield."
Instead of tormenting myself about the chastity of my existence, I selected one of the futures I’d dreamed up and tweeted it. (Varoluşumun iffeti konusunda kendimi üzmek yerine, hayal ettiğim geleceklerden birini seçip tweet attım.)
"The infatuation of some city women in their wretched imitation of those at court is more offensive than the coarseness of the women of the people and the rusticity of country-women, since it is a mixture of both, and of affectation as well."
Sayfa 178 - Illustrated with Twenty-Four Etchings by B. Damman and V. Foulquier, John C. Nimmo, 14. King William Street, Strand, W.C. London, 1885.·Kitabı okuyor