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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
Author
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Transvaal
South Africa
Choices
Ends
Reason
Ills
Done
Breeds
Enough
Slow
Even
Reasons
Long
Choice
World
Highest

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I would rather die than stay there. Well, you might die.
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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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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
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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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Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.
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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.
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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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Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.
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I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
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It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
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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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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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Never be ashamed of your love, he said gently. The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.
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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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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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