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The Naming

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“Maerad was pierced by a sudden grief, and briefly forgot all about pretense and masks: the world was too cruel for play.”

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“It is ever the way of the Knowing. I have often thought it is like a light blooming on a dark sea: as it increases, so does the depth and size of the unknown. The most wise are those who know how little they know!”

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

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“...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.”

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“Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.”

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“...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.”

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“The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.”

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“Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried deep Dark are my father's halls And carrion fowl and wolves now keep Their ruined walls From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh”

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“She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.”

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“What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" There was a short silence. "There is a great difference," said Cadvan softly. "One difference is that for the Dark, certainly you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it." "Funny idea of freedom." "It is the difference between committment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.”

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