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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.
Cate Tiernan
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Cate Tiernan
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: July 24
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You went to all that trouble just for my body? I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students. I grinned, You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.
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The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85
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Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?
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Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win? You win in lots of different ways, Asher said. Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.
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My sister thought about it for a few moments. Well, that's boring, she said finally. Why can't you read porn of something fun that I could borrow? I laughed. Maybe later.
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I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.
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Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.
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I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.
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Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
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No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad. -Nastasya
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I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
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But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.
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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life, Asher said. A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.
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I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.
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My face is not that expressive!
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I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.
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I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
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The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
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I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even when you're pissing me off, when you're reminding me of pain and despair and torture-it's there, the wanting. I'm tired of fighting it. I fight so many things, all the time, every day. I don't want to fight this. Not anymore.
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You have to admit he's good looking, Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. Of course I admit it. I'm not blind, I said, busily opening cans.
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