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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Love
Highest
Wisdom
Happiness
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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
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Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
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A nervous silence loosens tongues
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
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Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
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