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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

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Alison Croggon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Librettist
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Transvaal
South Africa
Light
Sought
Nothing
Uncertain
Dangerous
Dark
Help
Future
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Tell
Singular

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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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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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I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
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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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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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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
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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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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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