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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

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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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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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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I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
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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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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
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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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Wars come and go politics endure.
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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What is fear but courage's shadow?
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That which yields is not always weak.
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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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