Colleen Chen Quotes

#1. There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

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#2. She'd never spoken to anyone before of this business of being seen, loved for who she was; to have it voiced by this man she'd just met sent chills down her spine.

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#3. Then you shouldn't be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I'm done with him.

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#4. Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality.

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#5. Souls aren't discrete units - or even units at all. They're more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.

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#6. A room - full of detached feet - like hundreds of them. Maybe thousands! And I saw the king in there. He was having an orgy with them. It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. Like a bunch of insects crawling all over his naked body. Except they weren't insects.

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#7. Oh," she breathed. "How silly I've been."
"How silly we've all been," said another of the wives. "We shouldn't be fighting each other. Our problems don't lie in any of the relationships we have with each other."
"The problem is our entire social system," chimed in another.

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#8. Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

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#9. To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

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#10. Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

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#11. He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little.

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#12. She would have found it peaceful and relaxing here, but in every town they traveled through, people radiated anxiety under uneasy masks of optimism. Their dependency on magic had made them nearly helpless now that everything magical was corrupted.

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