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I will either find a way, or make one.
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A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.
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kiss
kate-elliott
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Kate Elliott |
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because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
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Kate Elliott |
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Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi."
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I lifted my chin. "All right then. You are always very precise when it comes to magic. So I've observed. And really, really don't like to get things wrong. So when you saw there were two young women, that day you came to this house, why did you not even ask about my cousin?" His crooked smile made my heart turn over. "All right, then. I'll tell you." He paused as if gathering courage, before he forged on. "When I saw you coming down the sta..
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Kate Elliott |
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Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?
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sexuality
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Kate Elliott |
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If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.
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Kate Elliott |
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anyone can make a desert and call it peace...
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peace
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What is freedom?" he asked bitterly, "and who is truly free? We are all bound by what we are, and where we come from." "Maybe," I said slowly as I considered the turn my life had taken, the lies I had been told, "because we do not look farther than where we have been told to look. Perhaps it would all be different if we weren't afraid of what we are. Or what we might become."
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Kate Elliott |
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A strong man does not need a silent wife.
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Kate Elliott |
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I have to believe he will do as he promised. Yet the truth is that I trust him because of the way he snared my fingers in his. That is the worst reason of all to trust, but my bitter heart will not stop singing its recklessly giddy song.
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Kate Elliott |
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It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
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Kate Elliott |
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We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean
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Kate Elliott |
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We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges.
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politics
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A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
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stillness
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But in the midst of the monstrous assembly that is slave to fortune, each solitary small figure who linked her hand to another built a chain of loyalty and trust. We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean.
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Kate Elliott |
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When you have a full and eager heart in you, you must not go to a man whose heart is empty and weak.
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Kate Elliott |
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
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punching-a-shark
pathos
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Kate Elliott |
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The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.
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Kate Elliott |
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It is not in Victory that you learn how strong you truly are. - Stronghand
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Kate Elliott |
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It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.
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Kate Elliott |
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There's little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He
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Kate Elliott |
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Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
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war
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Kate Elliott |
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I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.
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Kate Elliott |
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We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
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Kate Elliott |
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I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.
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Kate Elliott |
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All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.
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Kate Elliott |
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The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
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world
empowerment
seeds
promise
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Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.
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punching-a-shark
talking
trouble
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No one can fall in love at first sight. Love is built over years, not snapped into existence like a flame that can be as easily extinguished.
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Kate Elliott |
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Naturalists claim that however much the female may be said to love the accoutrements of fashion and furnishings, it is the male who is driven to display himself.
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Kate Elliott |
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We don't have to accept the things we might change.
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empowerment
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The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
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smash
power
snow
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He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!
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Kate Elliott |
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I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye." "That's what I love about you. Your precision."
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family
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I don't know," said Diana. "I gave up a long time ago trying to decide whether we're ever ourselves or are only playing roles. And who could tell which the role was, the passionate kisser or the ruthless conqueror? Maybe they both are roles. Or maybe they're both true. Can't two contradictory things exist inside one person?"
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Kate Elliott |
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I am like you, Bloodheart," he said, his voice hoarse; but his voice always was hoarse now, for he had survived worse injuries than these. The iron collar, and his chains, weighed heavily on his neck. "My heart rests not within me but with another, and she is far away from here. That is why you will never defeat me."
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love
strength-of-will
undefeated
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Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, 'Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself'? Although in the text I read the words were written as, 'the man wiser,' but I can only suppose the scribe wrote the word wrong or meant it to be 'Elder.
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Kate Elliott |
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But aren't all of us like a fine weaving? The pattern the world sees often hides the threads." Tess" --
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Kate Elliott |
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Hyacinth, we all have our limits. I can't save the world. I can't stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art.
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Kate Elliott |
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When acquaintances embrace, one can read the gap between them. When friends, when siblings embrace, no matter how close, there is still an infinitesimal distance, like a layer of molecules, separating them. When a mother hugs her child, they meet. But when lovers embrace, they don't just meet but join. Tess
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Kate Elliott |
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You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh."
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Kate Elliott |
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The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more."
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Kate Elliott |
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I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four
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