Meredith Ann Pierce quotes
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“He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.”
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“They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.”
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“Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.”
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“I shall never love any as I love thee, Moonbrow!†she cried. He nuzzled her, very gently. “Nor I you, Ryhenna,†he said. “Tek is my mate. I love her. You are my shoulder-friend, and I love you. I love you both, but differently. And when in a year or two years’ time, you dance court within this glade, it will be with one whom you love in a way entirely other than the way that you love me. I am your companion, your friend, Ryhenna, just as you are always and ever mine. Stand fast with me,†he said, “and no foe shall ever part us.”
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“I thought you had forgotten me.†“I have spent my life remembering you.”
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“Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.”
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“A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.”
-- Meredith Ann Pierce
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”
Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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