"We may not have demon fathers dangling offers……" — Jacqueline Carey
"We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures."
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88 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey has 88 quotes on this site.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians…
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque…
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to…
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was…
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant…
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More Baser Quotes
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Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would…
— James E. Faust
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for…
— Bryant H. McGill
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It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to…
— Thomas Case
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original…
— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser…
— Lord Byron
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
— T.H. White
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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd,…
— John Milton
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Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes…
— Rajneesh
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By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the…
— Melissa Marr
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