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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept."
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"In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."
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"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take toi on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.."
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"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
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"What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up par man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?"
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"I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment."
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"We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds."
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"It is funny how toi do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; toi would drown in it if possible."
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"Because toi don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. toi have to play with it till toi get it exactly right."
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"I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop."
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"Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the Heroes and who the villians."
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"There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. "
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"We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic."
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"You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it."
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"We're all strangers connected par what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I l’amour about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone ou even plus comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."
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"But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect? ...Aren't the strange, new fleurs that arise par mistake ou misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?"
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"Do toi think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his Lost angel, I wonder?"
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"Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us."
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"Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted par the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to."
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"There is much asked and only so much I think I can ou should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?”
And here is the best answer I can give: Because.
Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.
Because sometimes, we lose people we l’amour and it hurts deeply.
Because sometimes, as the writer, toi have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves toi to do it.
Because sometimes there aren’t really réponses to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.
Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.
Why, toi ask? Because, I answer.
Inadequate yet true."
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"Why is it that some secrets can drown toi while some pull toi close to others in a way toi never want to lose?"
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"It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted ou whether I've just been settled for."
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"...reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it ou let it slip away is the challenge put before us all. "
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"Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having Lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel anges vowed to continue fighting here on earth."
"I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven."
"True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more."
"He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks.
"Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied."
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"Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my l’amour won't be my love, then I will live no more..."
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"They would place their hands together inside the cercle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The cercle represents l’amour in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end. "
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"I wonder how many times each jour she dies a little."
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"I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world."
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"I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is plus dangerous than I could imagine."
"What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?
Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes toi want to scurry accueil to the safety of your fire?
ou is it something deeper, something much plus frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?"
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"The world is a lie...not toi and me."
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"How I'd l’amour to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows ou expects certain things from me."
Quotes from the Gemma Doyle Trilogy
