Alison Croggon Quotes

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• We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

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  Mistake, Mean, Evil

  "The Riddle". Book by Alison Croggon, November 1, 2004.

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• There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

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  Knowing, Shame, Willing To Learn

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• While the heart beats, hope lingers.

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  Heart, Beats, Heart Beat

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• It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.

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  Success, Light, Differences

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• Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.

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  Love Is, Agony, May

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• Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

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  Joy, Doubt, Fountain

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• By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

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  Blow, Thinking, Light

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• It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

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  Food, Clothes, Honor

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• There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.

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  Pain, Heart, Soul

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• At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.

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  Summer, Blue, Goats

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• I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

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  Cities, Complaining, Tedium

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• Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.

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  Needs, Betrayed, Need You

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• Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.

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  Heart, Light, Shadow

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• I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

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  Liars, Love You, Thinking

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• And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

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  Wall, Men, Light

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• You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

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  Queens, Men, Remembrance

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• You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

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  Pain, Heart, Suffering

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• Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave

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  Joy, Sorrow, Enchantment

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• Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

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  Sky, Drunk, Desolate

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• Triple tongued is triple named

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• I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

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  Thinking, Hawks, Stuck

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• And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

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  Knowing, Singing, Together

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• Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.

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  Queens, War, Heart

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• Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

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  Children, Forgotten Things, Tales

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• Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

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  Long, Choices, Done

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