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  1. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    She's read many books.
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  2. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    Most things are possible, if one decides they are.
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  3. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    He laughed. "But I love to ride, just as-as fire loves to burn. I love to see the mountains in the winter, the sea and the northern hills in the summer. Would you live forever in one place, never seeing another?
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  4. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.
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  5. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    First and foremost, any great empire thrives on movement: stable lines of supply, of trade, of information. This movement must be unobstructed for officials on imperial business, and monitored and restricted for others on a scale that varied depending on the necessity of these functions to imperial strength and the likelihood of such restrictions causing dangerous levels of dissent.
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  6. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies-" He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. "-out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars.
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  7. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    But the plains do not continue forever, just as happiness and sorrow both eventually come to an end. Their first hint of the highlands was a rough stretch of land pitted with gorges and rugged valleys that were barren of cover and composed of rock as stubborn and sharp and unyielding as a saint. The jaran playfully called it krinye-tom, the little mountains; Tess called it hell and wondered what the big mountains were like.
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  8. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then-well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.
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  9. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.
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  10. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.
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  11. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path." -HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS"
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  12. Kate Elliott _ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran

    There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it.'" "Oh, gods." A quaver shook Ilya's voice. "The bargains we make with the gods never fall out as we think they will.
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