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Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price.
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Kate Elliott |
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As he takes his place I know that just as the crowd sees him and his sister standing on either side of their cousin, reminding everyone they are royal cousins, the crowd also sees me within arm's reach of the young lord rumored to be my lover. Guard your victor's ribbons carefully and you can do very well for yourself, Gargaron told me. As
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Kate Elliott |
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I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...
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From the table, far enough away that they thought I couldn't hear, Bintou whispered to Wasa, "I can't believe she talks to him like that!" "I'm going to learn to talk like that!" murmured Wasa. "I can't run about and hit people like Cat does, but I can become an orator like Cousin Bee. I'm going to become a hero and cause trouble all over everywhere!" "Girls!"
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Kate Elliott |
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There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It"
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Kate Elliott |
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I meant that in politics there may be times when it's expedient to leave someone in power who's become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person might do. But
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Kate Elliott |
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But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?
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Kate Elliott |
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When by the power of the heavens the whole world from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun shall be at one in peace, then so shall we all be at peace. You may believe that your country is far away, but not so far away that we cannot ride there. You may believe that your mountains are high beyond measure, but not so high that we cannot cross them. You may believe that the seas are vast, but not so broad that our ships cannot sail ..
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Coming onstage for her first entrance, Diana felt transported to some ancient scene. They could have been any group of itinerant actors out making their way along the Silk Road, the famous Earth trade route that ran across the mountains and deserts and steppes of Asia, stopping in this medieval oriental city made glorious by its marble colonnades and gentle silk banners. Even
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Kate Elliott |
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Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You"
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And once you saw the world from three, or five, different roads, the view was never the same. The map changed and altered, and its details became more accurate. The landmarks receded or grew, depending on the angle from which you observed them, and at once, there might be an escarpment from which the astonished traveler would rendezvous with her selves and could suddenly comprehend the land as it truly was.
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Kate Elliott |
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If we stay as we have been, then we will die, just as a pool dries up in the summer if there is no rain. We must change if we want to live. But we must also remain who we are and who the gods gifted us to be.
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Kate Elliott |
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Why is it that you and I suppose that if we want something, it must come to pass?" Charles's lips quirked up into a smile so colored by grief that it felt almost as if other people had been brought by that tiny expression into the hushed solitude of the chamber. "There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it."
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Kate Elliott |
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There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it.'" "Oh, gods." A quaver shook Ilya's voice. "The bargains we make with the gods never fall out as we think they will."
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If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path." --HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS" --
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Kate Elliott |
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You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
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War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
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We'll smell of fish forever," I said. "That would be nice."
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Kate Elliott |
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No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.
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Kate Elliott |
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But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.
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Kate Elliott |
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Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.
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Kate Elliott |
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I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without"
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Kate Elliott |
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No, no! I'll carry the waste bucket. No one will ever suspect Prince Temnos would do that, will they?" His grin heartens me. We"
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Kate Elliott |
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But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then--well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.
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Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
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truth
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But the plains do not continue forever, just as happiness and sorrow both eventually come to an end. Their first hint of the highlands was a rough stretch of land pitted with gorges and rugged valleys that were barren of cover and composed of rock as stubborn and sharp and unyielding as a saint. The jaran playfully called it krinye-tom, the little mountains; Tess called it hell and wondered what the big mountains were like.
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That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies--" He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. "--out here, under the gaze of the sun and the..
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Kate Elliott |
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Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.
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First and foremost, any great empire thrives on movement: stable lines of supply, of trade, of information. This movement must be unobstructed for officials on imperial business, and monitored and restricted for others on a scale that varied depending on the necessity of these functions to imperial strength and the likelihood of such restrictions causing dangerous levels of dissent.
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Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world."
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He laughed. "But I love to ride, just as--as fire loves to burn. I love to see the mountains in the winter, the sea and the northern hills in the summer. Would you live forever in one place, never seeing another?"
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Kate Elliott |
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Most things are possible, if one decides they are.
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Kate Elliott |
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She's read many books.
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Kate Elliott |
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Narrative gets engineered until we start to believe it has always run that way.
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Kate Elliott |
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In truth what had drawn my eye was the rear view of a young man stripped to the waist and plying an adze along a beam. I could not help but admire his muscled back.
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Then he strode toward me as if certain I was about to bolt and he must catch me before I did so.
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Kate Elliott |
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Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise.
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Kate Elliott |
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That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?
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Kate Elliott |
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Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer?" She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. "To annoy you, dearest."
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Kate Elliott |
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His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.
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Kate Elliott |
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She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.
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Kate Elliott |
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Where do I start? Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.
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Kate Elliott |
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Like fire, the passage of time devoured all things, even a man's life, until it was utterly consumed.
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Kate Elliott |
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Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.
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