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His choice here, no one else to blame. Sometimes, he thought, life was easier when you had people to stop you. Maybe that was something parents were good for.

— Guy Gavriel Kay Ysabel (2007)

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He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

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Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.

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When power is gone the memory of power lingers.

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I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.

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In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

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