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Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.
Alison Croggon
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Alison Croggon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
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At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
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You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
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The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
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Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow. -Hem at Zelika's grave
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I would rather die than stay there. Well, you might die.
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Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
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Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
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It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
Alison Croggon
Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
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Triple tongued is triple named
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Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous it may never be possible it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
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Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.
Alison Croggon
By the light, he said, when he had mastered himself. I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.
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And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.
Alison Croggon
I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
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