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Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.
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He spoke solemnly. "This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we always have, we go to it together."
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Just tell me. Do I break the future? -Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day.
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it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become
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change
danger
fear
heart
love
outcome
realization
realize
result
risk
see
soul
threaten
truth
understand
worry
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Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless. Be the night that flows over all, touching without being felt. For night is a cat.
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To sate your need without love is theft
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love
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Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs.
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A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.
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You can't play in shit and not get some on you.
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Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.
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sky
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In politics, appearance matters more than truth.
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Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.
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love
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Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination," the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, "Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist."
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The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.
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He shook his head slowly. "I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well when we know several facets of that person. Father, son, brother, friend, lover, husband... a man can be all of those things, yet no one person knows him in all of those roles. I watch you being Hap's father, and yet I do not know you as I kn..
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there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
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Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it.
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
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dissemble
fool
hide
lie
moron
reveal
truth
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This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.
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How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?
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No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.
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Once she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.
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And what do you believe?" A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning."
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believe
love
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Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.
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There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.
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kennit-sbracelet
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No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.
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It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.
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The Six Duchies would fall. The world would end. We went to fetch blankets.
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you imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution.
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What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.
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careful
collect
discern
hide
power
puppet
reveal
secret
threat
trust
use
utilize
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This terrible event - whatever it was - is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your future as you wish it to be, in spite of what happened to you. Then you have seized control of it.
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Why're you like that?" the boy persisted. "Like what?" Paragon finally asked in annoyance. "Ya'know. Allus mad. Or crazy fightin' Say'n stuff ta be mean." "How else do you expect me to be?" Paragon retorted. "Joyous that they've dragged me out here? All excited to go off on a hare-brained rescue mission with them?" He felt the boy's shrug. "Ya could be." "I could be?" Paragon snorted. "I'd like to know how." "S'easy. Ya decide t'be." "You d..
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There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.
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There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.
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There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
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He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
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cleanliness
desire
dirty
disorder
long
mess
organized
peace
pure
seek
tidiness
tidy
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I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.
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I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.
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refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.
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I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.
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I don't think I can stand it much longer," he warned her. "Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me... I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation... I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own."
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Death fed life.
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He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water into the cup and a bowl. Ginger and cinnamon wafted toward me. "All of time, every sliced instant of it, is rich with vertices of choices. One becomes accustomed to that, to the point at which sometimes even I have to stop and remind myself that I am making choices, even when I do not seem to be. Every indrawn bre..
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In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them. But
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