Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief _ all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.
The Wolf in Winter
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The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief _ all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.
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