Jacqueline Carey Quotes
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I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.
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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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I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
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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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The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
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Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.
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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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There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
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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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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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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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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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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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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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It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
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What is fear but courage's shadow?
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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.
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All knowledge is worth having
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
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