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1 " You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. "
― Nora Roberts , Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)
2 " What’s an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them? "
3 " Love shouldn’t be hard.” “There I think you’re wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it’s not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost. "
4 " You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon—though I really think dragons get a bad rap—kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch. "
5 " Coming from something doesn't make it what you are. "
6 " once "
7 " Friends are friends whenever you make them. "
8 " What people know, what they believe, what they accept? Those are all different matters, aren't they? "
9 " Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar. "
10 " God I'm crazy about him.""It's early yet for crazy isn't it?""Don't you know when you know? Five minutes, five years - how does that change what you know? I wanted to know with the man I was with before. I tried to know. I liked him, and I was comfortable with him. I told myself, 'Give it more time', but time didn't change anything. Not for either of us as it turned out. "
11 " People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy. "
12 " You don’t cheat, steal, or lie. You don’t misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don’t spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don’t walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don’t give your word unless you intend to keep it. "
13 " A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back. "
14 " Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before. "
15 " I move at a pace that suits me. "
16 " Do you believe in reincarnation?...I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again. "
17 " It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one. "
18 " He looks fierce and dignified at the same time. Can I pet him? "
19 " Symbols are important. The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many. Neither understand that the one is part of the many, the many part of the one. "
20 " Was it genes or magick? she wondered. But then, for some, one was the same as the other "