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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Author
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Highland Park
Illinois
Children
Never
Soon
Child
Comes
Young
Enough

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Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
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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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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
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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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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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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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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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Garner knowledge, by any means possible
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Genius requires an audience.
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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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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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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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A nervous silence loosens tongues
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