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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Break Light Power Wake Up
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World

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