“I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.”

I know how you feel.
I doubt that very much, M’lord.

Elizabeth hardly ever mentioned her mother, but a locket-ring she wore says more than a million words ever could: inside the ring was a picture of Elizabeth and her mother, Anne Boleyn.

Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel.

Daenerys Targaryen, the unburnt Mother of Dragons

evagrean:

Favorite Character Quotes → Sokka

“Okay karma person or thing, whoever’s in charge of this stuff—if I can just get out of this situation alive, I will give up meat and sarcasm. Okay? OW! That’s all I got. It’s pretty much my whole identity—Sokka, the meat and sarcasm guy. But I’m willing to be Sokka, the veggies and straight-talk fellow. Deal?”

What makes mothers all that they are?
Might as well ask, “What makes a star?”

fashionfaves:

Daisy Lowe for Fault