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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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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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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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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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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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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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To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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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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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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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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