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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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The hand you hold the longest is your own.
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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.
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I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
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I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.
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I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
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One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
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We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
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