Jacqueline Carey Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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