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“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”
“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
“There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.”
“The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.”
“No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya”
“Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.”
“Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."I grinned. "I've noticed."Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term.""Really? I thought...”
“I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me...”
“Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where eve...”
“I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you ...”
“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...”
“I looked deeply into the fire, and the timeless, eternal dance of colors I saw there was so beautiful, I wanted to cry. Cal's deep voice floated toward me as clearly as a whisper in a tunnel, as if...”
“I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I can't tell right from wrong, light from dark. I'm here because I can't stand being m...”
“He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. Weboth know Im not a gentleman.Yeah. Okay, let me out. Im tired.Theres something else, he said, and I groaned.What now?This. He stepped c...”
“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain an...”
“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some hu...”
“Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?""You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as go...”
“Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.”
“Have you ever seen a god laugh? It makes you catch your breath and feel hopeful and shivery and excited all at the same time. That's how it was watching Cal.”
“He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “Weboth know I’m not a gentleman.”“Yeah. Okay, let me out. I’m tired.”“There’s something else,” he said, and I groaned.“What now?”“This.”...”
