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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Air
Skies
Promise
Bell
Wonder
Miraculous
Inspirational
Bells
Translucent
Great
Ice
Announce
Fresh
Endings
Rings
Beginnings
Sky
Suspended

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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
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Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
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Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.
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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.
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In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.
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Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
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There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought Wound On The Moon .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.
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The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
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A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, In the desert, the only god is a well. I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.
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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
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Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
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