The Last Hours: Chain of Iron

Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease. Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living.

All one had to do was pretend, she realized, marveling a bit, and everyone else would fall into line pretending along with you.

“So here it is: always tell Cordelia what you feel.” He looked James in the eye. “You may fear what will happen if you speak your heart. You may wish to hide things because you fear hurting others. But secrets have a way of eating at relationships, Jamie. At love, at friendship—they undermine and destroy them until in the end you find you are bitterly alone with the secrets you kept.”