Jacqueline Carey Quotes

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I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

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Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

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There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

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It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

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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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Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

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Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys!...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

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Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once? Mm-hmm. He finished his ale. That would be love.

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I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

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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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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

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All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

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Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

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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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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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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

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We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

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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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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

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It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

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Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

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Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

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