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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
Cannot
Loyalty
Asks
Dies

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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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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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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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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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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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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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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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To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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