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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
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Idle
Awareness
Pleasure
Nothing
Much
Like
Spoils

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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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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
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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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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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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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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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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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There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
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It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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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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