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You are wise, Mama." "The price of experience," she said. "I wish I had been wiser when I was younger."
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it was easier to be angry than to examine why
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I have missed you beyond all reason, and that there is not a kissing bunch large enough in that hall to show you how much
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do not dwell in denial; I dwell in hope.
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You fit well into the hollow of my shoulder
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
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There was a dark satisfaction in choosing to remain wounded, yet he had seen what happened to Henry when he cut himself off from love.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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You are my daughter," she said. "I will always stand in the storm for you."
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It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
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embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories." 31 The Alps, Winter 1190-1 Alienor and Berenguela pushed on with their journey, stopping at nightfall to claim hospitality at monasteries, castles, and towns that were friendly."
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The rain whispered down, soft as the touch of cobwebs, shrouding the green of the land in swathes of clinging grey. Maude had grown accustomed to the damp climate, to the clouds that constantly swept in, heavy and moist, off the Irish Sea. She had become used to hearing the soft, guttural tongue of the native Gaels in place of French and the stretched vowels of the English; to feeling as if she was living on the edge of the world, where the..
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Where there's life there's hope,' he said sternly. 'Where there's life there's pain,' Oliver responded, but opened his eyes.
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And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
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Sometimes love strikes like lightning, and its power is as blinding. Other times it comes gently, creeps up on you unawares and covers you like a blanket.
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In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
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I would not have you follow me, but walk at my side.
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There were some parts of himself that he would probably never find because he dared not go looking for them in the shadows where she had cast them.
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Not all that is plain is dross,
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A]ll the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul.
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smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres.
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My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living--no matter our unworthiness."
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Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.
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You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.
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