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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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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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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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We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
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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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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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After you, it's all cheap tequila.
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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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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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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
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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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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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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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