Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Chosen (2002)

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

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

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

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And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

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

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

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

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