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It Was Like Noticing The Sun. You Couldn't Help But See It, To Turn To Face The Heat Of It, To Bask In The Glory Of It. But Often When The Sun Is High In The Sky, The Moon Is Up There, Too. A Dim Memory Of What She Will Be In The Night, But There, Nonetheless, Dim And Misty, Hard And White. At Night, There Is Only The Moon, The Sun Is Nowhere To Be Seen. There Are No Distractions When The Moon Rules The Sky.

-Laurell K. Hamilton

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It Was Like Noticing

Laurell K. Hamilton

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It Was Like Noticing The Sun. You Couldn't Help But See It, To Turn To Face The Heat Of It, To Bask In The Glory Of It. But Often When The Sun Is High In The Sky, The Moon Is Up There, Too. A Dim Memory Of What She Will Be In The Night, But There, Nonetheless, Dim And Misty, Hard And White. At Night, There Is Only The Moon, The Sun Is Nowhere To Be Seen. There Are No Distractions When The Moon Rules The Sky.

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I Have No Personal Stake In These People, Jean-claude, But They Are People. Good, Bad, Or Indifferent, They Are Alive, And No One Has The Right To Just Arbitrarily Snuff Them Out.” "so It Is The Sanctity Of Life You Cling To?" I Nodded. “that And The Fact That Every Human Being Is Special. Every Death Is A Loss Of Something Precious And Irreplaceable.

Zerbrowski Said, "i Only Ever Understood One Woman, And She Was Kind Enough To Marry Me So I Didn't Have To Decipher Anyone Else.

No Name-calling Truly Bites Deep Unless, In Some Dark Part Of Us, We Believe It. If We Are Confident Enough Then It Is Just Noise.

I Cannot Do It. I Cannot Bear It. I Cannot Go Back To What I Was Here. I Cannot Stand At Her Side And Watch Another Take Her. I Am Not That Strong Or That Good.

Power Makes You A Monarch, And All The Fancy Robes In The World Won't Do The Job Without It.

A Flower May Be Beautiful All On Its Own, But A Person Is Never Truly Beautiful Unless Someone's Eyes Show Him That He Is Beautiful.

Zerbrowski Said, "try Not. Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try." It Took Me A Second To Realize That He Had Just Quoted Star Wars To Me. It Made Me Smile, And In That Moment I Loved Him, Just For That.

I Am Not A Morning Person.

Not A Morning Person

If Your Life Works, And You Work In It, Then It’s Okay, Whatever Is Happening Is Okay.

I Just Love Dealing With People Whose Idea Of Sometimes Is Every Thousand Years,” I Said.

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