Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart (2001)

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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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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

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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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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

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

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

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