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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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Those that yield are not always weak
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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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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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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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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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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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Wars come and go politics endure.
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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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We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
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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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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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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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After you, it's all cheap tequila.
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