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Michelle Sagara West

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

dragons, food, kaylin-neya, sanabalis, students, teacher

Michelle Sagara West

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow – hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

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Michelle Sagara West

Stop judging your life only by the failures,” he whispered.”What should I do?” she whispered. “I’m always going to fail.””We all do,” he said softly, his voice closer now. “We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

failure, kaylin-neya, severn

Michelle Sagara West

No, time has silverted the dark sheen of her hair, and thickened her body, and lined the corners of her eyes and her lips.He saw in them the hints of the smile he loved, and knew, to be fair, that time had been no kinder to him. Or perhaps, it had been just as kind; for she did not look the part of a young girl, and she was not: she was stronger, wiser, and more just than the fear of youth allowed; she gave him the shelter that he needed, on the rare occasions that that need drove him. She trusted him, always; she looked up to him, still; he strove, in every way, to continue to live up to her expectation. She was the one person in his life he did not wish to disappoint.

Michelle Sagara West

What would this have been, if it had more power to give?””This may come as a surprise to you,” he replied dryly, “But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct.””Which means you don’t know.””Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know.” – Kaylin & Tiamaris

hawks, kaylin-neya, magic, tiamaris

Michelle Sagara West

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn’t remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts.

anger, death, guilt, loss, silence

Michelle Sagara West

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I’mfascinated by them anyway.

kaylin, people, rennick, story

Michelle Sagara West

In youth,’ he said, speaking as if from a great distance, ‘we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

Michelle Sagara West

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

failure, success

Michelle Sagara West

Stay,” he said abruptly. “Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me, and if my own fear is not strong enough to keep me from my duty, yours will only grieve me, girl. It will give me guilt and no rest, but it won’t preserve my life.

Michelle Sagara West

There wasn’t a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, “May your day be full of angry dragons” or, “May every dragon you meet today be pissed off.” But, there should have been.

dragons, fantasy, humor

Michelle Sagara West

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.