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Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Even
Stunted
Reaches
Sunlight
Tree

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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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That which yields is not always weak.
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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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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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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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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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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 redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
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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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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
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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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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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After you, it's all cheap tequila.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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