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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love."
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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
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"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
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"A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live."
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"The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice."
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"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
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"Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value."
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"I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."
Devotion
"He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish."
Romance
"Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall-and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home."
Social
"You do what you love, what you need."
Desire
"There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good."
Humanity
"A life of open skies and roads, of wandering where the wind takes you, answering to no one and nothing? A life of freedom. She shook her head. "What more could I ask than to live a life unchecked by cages"?"
Freedom
"She should not remember what it was like to be free."
Freedom
"Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."
Knowledge
"The stag's enormous head turned slightly-toward the wagon, toward the small window.The Lord of the North.So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find their way home, she'd once told Ansel as they lay under a blanket of stars and traced the constellation of the stag. So they can look up at the sky, no matter where they are, and know Terrasen is forever with them."
Guidance
"I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you."
Love
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