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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
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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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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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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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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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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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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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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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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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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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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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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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