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Drag all the skeletons out where we can see ’em,” she said softly.“That’s the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light.
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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.
Cate Tiernan
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A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.
Cate Tiernan -
At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.
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Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.
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I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even when you're pissing me off, when you're reminding me of pain and despair and torture-it's there, the wanting. I'm tired of fighting it. I fight so many things, all the time, every day. I don't want to fight this. Not anymore.
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Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
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But that's how Wicca was: ancient and gently permeating many facets of people's lives without their being aware of it.
Cate Tiernan
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The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.
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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 huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.
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I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.
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He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul..
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There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty...
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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 and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty
Cate Tiernan
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What? I wanted to climb him like a tree.
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What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
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I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.
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Don't be ridiculous. Heritage does not equal destiny.
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I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.
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The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
Cate Tiernan