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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
— Jacqueline Carey
People believe what they are told.
— Jacqueline Carey
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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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers
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Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.
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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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It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.
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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
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All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.
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Those that yield are not always weak
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Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.
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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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You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.
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Garner knowledge, by any means possible
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And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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Wars come and go; politics endure.
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To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
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I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.
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It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.
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Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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To fail and persevere is a harder test than any you will meet on the practice-field.
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I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.
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And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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What is fear but courage's shadow?
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Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
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For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price.
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After you, it's all cheap tequila.
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Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.
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It is passing strange, what a fluid thing is one's own identity.
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We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now
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Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!
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But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
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My lord. It is too much, and not enough
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For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.
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Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
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The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
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Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
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Love as thou wilt
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But to force growth is to kill it.
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Let the dreamers and the seers keep watch. It is what we do.
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?
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We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.
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I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.
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He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.
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You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.
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Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.
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It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.
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I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
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I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.
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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a ... a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.
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Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
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In the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.
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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
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Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.
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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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Not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
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The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning.
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Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.
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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
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It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
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There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
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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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One does not reckon, at such times, the cost to one's limbs and joints; there is a limit to the pliancy of the mortal form.
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I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
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Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.
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It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on.
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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.
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One must gauge one's trust carefully.
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where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts
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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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What does it mean to be good?
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?
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You're as bad as your master," he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. "Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips.
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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
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For every victory there is a price.
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There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
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All paths are present, always ... and we can but choose among them.
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.
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Genius requires an audience.
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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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If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
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