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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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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
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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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A nervous silence loosens tongues
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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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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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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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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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Genius requires an audience.
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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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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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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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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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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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Garner knowledge, by any means possible
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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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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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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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