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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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More quotes by Alison Croggon
It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
Alison Croggon
What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark? There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.
Alison Croggon
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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There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice, Cadvan said. The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice.
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There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.
Alison Croggon
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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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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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.
Alison Croggon
I would rather die than stay there. Well, you might die.
Alison Croggon
Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
Alison Croggon
Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
Alison Croggon
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
Alison Croggon
Triple tongued is triple named
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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.
Alison Croggon
There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
Alison Croggon
We are all mistaken sometimes sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
Alison Croggon
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
Alison Croggon
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.
Alison Croggon
I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
Alison Croggon
Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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