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#1

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: love

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#2

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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#3

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: inspiration, life, philosophy

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#4

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: desire, lust

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#5

“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: choice, crossroads, wait

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#6

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: awake, aware, dream, ears, self

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#7

“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: flesh, heart, pain

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#8

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: bitterness, fate, fear, life

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#9

“To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: enemy

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#10

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: hate, love

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#11

“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: cause, death, secret

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#12

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: happiness, sorrow

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#13

“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: intimidation, nervous, politics, sex, silence, tongues

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#14

“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: battle, loyalty, war

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#15

“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: spiritual

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#16

“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion

tags: imriel

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#17

“Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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#18

“I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: choice, gods, wish

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#19

“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

tags: fashion, self-perception

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#20

“If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: me, suprised, think

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#21

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: behavior, math, patterns, slow

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#22

“To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: blame, taint, treachery

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#23

“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: spiritual

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#24

“Spontaneity is the province of youth”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: youth

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#25

“Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: blame, gods, immortal, stupid, will

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#26

“Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: battle, joscelin

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#27

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: historical-fiction, story, truth

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#29

“An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#30

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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#31

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: death, humor

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