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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Minors
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Tales
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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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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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Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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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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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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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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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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Genius requires an audience.
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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
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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 thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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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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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
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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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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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