Top 50 Alison Croggon Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Alison Croggon

2. “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”

— Alison Croggon

3. “Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.”

— Alison Croggon

4. “For life is what animals can teach us: how the present moment is all, and past and future are illusion.”

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5. “There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.”

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6. “Many forgotten things live still in children’s tales.”

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7. “While the heart beats, hope lingers.”

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8. “Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.”

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9. “At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”

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10. “You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.”

— Alison Croggon

11. “And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.”

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12. “The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life.”

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13. “There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”

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14. “Old friend,′ said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. ‘If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”

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15. “Cadvan smiled. “We are all many,” he said. “But most of us don’t have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It’s a lifetime’s quest, and it never ends.”

— Alison Croggon

16. “And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.”

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17. “Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.”

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18. “Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!”

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19. “It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”

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20. “I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.”

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21. “It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.”

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22. “Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil,” he said. “But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that.”

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23. “A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?”

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24. “But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it’s important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.”

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25. “Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.”

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26. “The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.”

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27. “They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than gutter out like a dim flame.”

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28. “I tried to become a hawk, it didn’t work. I think I got -stuck.”

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29. “The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”

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30. “It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

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

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32. “Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame.”

— Alison Croggon

33. “As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

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34. “The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.”

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35. “All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy.”

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36. “The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.”

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37. “Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.“-Alison Croggon.”

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38. “She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair.”

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39. “Triple tongued is triple named.”

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40. “Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins...”

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41. “I can promise, however, that the scrying will not hurt you,” Nelac continued. “And I will order a special feast afterward, just for you, to make up for it.” Hem.”

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42. “The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light.” Maerad.”

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43. “I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.”

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

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45. “The most wise are those who know how little they know!” They.”

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46. “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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47. “Let us drink to fellowship. May the Light bless us all, friend and stranger, and make true our tongues, and truer our hearts, and truest of all our deeds.”

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48. “They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.”

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49. “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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50. “I watched as the stars faded and the landscape began to materialize out of the night and become solid again, and the rim of the world grew rose-pink and deepened to orange and then split with molten gold, and the first rays of the sun speared the wide, empty plains.”

— Alison Croggon