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Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?
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A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.
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She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
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... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
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She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
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I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
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Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
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Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.
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We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.
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How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
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I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.
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