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Silvered Sentences
Galen Ghalanest

"I have seen how you wield that bosom madame, and if I may say you do so to devestating effect." "I believe the uncharitable call it 'the male condition' but I like to think not all of us are quite so brazen as all that." "You're all heart madame.. Well perhaps not all, quite a bit of you seems to be comprised of tender flesh, a winning smile and daring wit.." "Far be it for me to presume that what my modest intellect cannot fathom, my Goddess cannot know for true." "There is a man for every task, most would not slave away at the fields day in and day out, but everyone must eat." "Unpleasantness is one of the things that adds richness to our lives, for how can we understand the sweetness of a warm summer day if we have not experienced bitter winter's chill?" He smiles and his eyes twinkle. "You must be gentle with your words madame, young men such as myself are easily wounded, we are quite proud of our verbal jousts and our flattery. These are skills we have spent many hours of toil perfecting afterall, it would be a crushing blow indeed to learn they are not nearly as efficacious as we believe them to be.." "Madame, any woman who can convince a complete stranger to garb herself and apparent brother for Summer Court at no cost, in under a candle mark, posesses an overly fair measure of wit.. Add to that your uncanny ability to amuse and attract nearly any attractive prospect to cross your path.. I would say that your particular variety of wit is the sort to be envied by most." "You must forgive my humor madame, but I fear there is very little that is 'wonderful' about my personage. Charming, so I am told, periodically sweet even, I am however a mere shadow of the man I hope one day to be." "A hero who just got himself whooped like a schoolboy by a woman? ..for a woman ..because of a woman?" "Tha' doesn' change wha' ye di'" "Many and wondrous are the things I do for my religion madame, surely you know that by now.." "I am a child of the court, to me word and phrase are as your blades and wit.. You wield them expertly and with great skill, simply because you have grown with them.." "Isn't that supposed to be my line?" "The trials of female garb are varied and mysterious.." "Perhaps 'good' wasn't precisely the term I was looking for.. in your case 'well endowed' might serve better in its place." "Ephemeral.. Elusive, insubstantial and passing.. A kiss, a caress, a turn of phrase, these things are ephemeral in nature.." "I can see the potential.. It is like a soft breeze in the moonlight, tantalizing, yet all too brief and too soon out of reach.." "I have never presumed to understand women Jem, I accepted that fact long long ago, I even enjoy much of the mystery, the various female illusions, but you confuse me in ways I have not yet know.." "While I wholeheartedly enjoy the ebb and flow of the social wheel of the nobility, ultimately it entails an endless path of empty words and voices void of true concern or regard.. Every great once in a while you happen to catch a young woman who isn't avidly plying her trade seeking an enviable house to marry into and enticing a son of rank into her silken web, but all to often it is the young Darthusians with whom you find yourself conversing." "And with any luck somewhere in the mad whirl of viscious painted butterflies we'll be able to enjoy ourselves.." "Madame.. I am often in a hurry. However not once have I decided on a whim to betrothe two people who have no intention of entering into such an agreement." "If impulses could always be avoided there would be no need for repentance.. no need for the courts and no need for law. Religion would be a seldom remembered idea that crossed one's mind only at birth and death and seldom any time between.. There is much we cannot know, of ourselves as much as any other.. but that should not stop us from pursuing our goals, and striving to be that person we desire to be.." "Conviction. That is what I have.. it is all I can offer you. The world will not always be as you have known it, it cannot, I will not allow it to be so." "Don't just breathe Jem.. live." "Always madame.. whenever you have need of me.." He smiles. "Provided I am not previously engaged of course.. Although.. I remember a time-" he grins and offers her an apologetic bow. "Good day to you sir, may you find yourself unplagued by womenfolk beyond your powers to manage.."