Even ashes are a part of your freedom.
Even ashes are a part of your freedom.
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
It's a curious, wanting thing.
The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
They was told it too, perhaps. Does that make it true? Maybe. Maybe not.
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.
Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.
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