know no shame

James Norton as ORMUND HIGHTOWER House of the Dragon — 3.01: Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood

I've come to say farewell in the place life tore us apart 21 years ago today. So many things were broken inside me and around me since then. The man you knew no longer exists. I promised to love you until I died, and a long time afterward. And I will always love you. But I can no longer bring you happiness... I live my last moments with you. Everything, afterward, will merely be memories. I'll carry them with me upon the seas, the only place where all is horizon and where there is no trace of men. Live, and be happy. Never forget, until the day that fate unites us once again, all of human wisdom is contained in two words: Wait, and hope. Edmond Dantès, Count of Monte Cristo.

"When it was completed, he had Lancelot brought thither by night, and after putting him in the tower, he ordered the doors to be walled up, and made all the masons swear that they would never utter a word about this tower. It was his will that it should be thus sealed up, and that no door or opening should remain, except one small window. Here Lancelot was compelled to stay,"

PETER PAN (1953)

She had shut her mind off to me for some time then. And so I was left to revisit old haunts, desperate for connection. "Claudia, come home. I know I hurt you. I know I can make it right again."