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I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.Merrie Haskell
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And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.Merrie Haskell
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Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword , ” she said. “I’d cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through–” She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. “What? You don’t like bloodthirstiness?” she asked. “Pardon? No. I’m horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.Merrie Haskell
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The truth is .. . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.Merrie Haskell
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Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“ Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe, ” Perrotte said.Merrie Haskell
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The shrine I prayed at not to go to university, ” Sand said.“ I guess your prayer was answered, ” Perrotte said. Sand strongly considered throwing something at her–but there was nothing to hand that wasn’t sacred.Merrie Haskell
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How did you get into the castle, Alexandre, son of Gilles Smith?” Sand shrugged. “A saint kidnapped me from his shrine and put me into a fireplace here. So I guess the answer is, a miracle of Saint Melor. Or so I think. He has not told me.” “If you are trying to antagonize him, you are doing a good job, ” Perrotte whispered. Sand scuffed his shoe at her. “I’m just telling the truth! ” “You’re very good at telling it in the most maddening way possible.”“ Thank you?.Merrie Haskell
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You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.Merrie Haskell
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Forgiveness is not death. It is life.Merrie Haskell
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Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it. You misunderstood the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of the grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage or hatred.Merrie Haskell
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Mens videt astra.( The soul sees the stars.)Merrie Haskell
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But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.Merrie Haskell
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Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it. You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred.Merrie Haskell
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I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.Merrie Haskell