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I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Non c'e appagamento che non sia reso piu dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio.
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desiderio
fantasy
rosa
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Jacqueline Carey |
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What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said."
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Jacqueline Carey |
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C'e perspicacia nella follia.
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follia
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Jacqueline Carey |
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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 in 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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Jacqueline Carey |
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Questions are dangerous because they have answers
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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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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Jacqueline Carey |
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Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?
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Jacqueline Carey |
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All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. 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. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix."
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Jacqueline Carey |
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The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard."
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Jacqueline Carey |
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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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Jacqueline Carey |
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I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phedre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would. I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.
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mystery
prediction
spontaneity
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Jacqueline Carey |
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He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow." --
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Jacqueline Carey |
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What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?" Zariya considered the question. "If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man."
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Jacqueline Carey |
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She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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but oh, by all the fallen stars, it hurt!
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Jacqueline Carey |
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You should not be here, the forest whispered behind us. You do not belong here.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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In the desert we say Make haste slowly.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar
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Jacqueline Carey |
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What is fear, but courage's shadow?
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Jacqueline Carey |
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I did not like this place. Everything about it conspired to say, You do not belong here, you are not welcome here.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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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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strength
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Ci sono persone che si sentono in imbarazzo di fronte al dolore altrui e temono di dire la cosa sbagliata; a costoro dico che non si sbaglia nell'offrire conforto, mai. Una parola gentile, un abbraccio consolatorio... queste cose sono sempre bene accette.
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conforto
dolore
parola-gentile
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Jacqueline Carey |
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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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Jacqueline Carey |
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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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Jacqueline Carey |
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And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of true by mortal ambition returned to set the record straight.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than enough suffering in the world without adding to the balance.
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Young men," Melisande murmured after they had left, smiling faintly. "Such a sense of honor. Is he a little bit in love with you, do you think?" "Joscelin quite despises me," I said. "My lady." "Oh, love and hate are two sides of the same blade," she said cheerily enough, motioning for a servant to take my cloak, "and an edge finer honed than yon Cassiline's dagger divides them."
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Jacqueline Carey |