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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Author
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Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
Eternal
Present
Pain
Else
Everything
Obliterates

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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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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.
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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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