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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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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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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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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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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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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.
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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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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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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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What is fear but courage's shadow?
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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
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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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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
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