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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Surprised
Thought
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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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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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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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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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Those that yield are not always weak
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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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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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Genius requires an audience.
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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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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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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
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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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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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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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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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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
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