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"The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control."
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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
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"Stability, insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this."
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"Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!"
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"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
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"Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts."
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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
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"Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily."
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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
Sea
"Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle."
Moon
"These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual."
Age
"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it."
Writing
"Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life."
Life
"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."
Being
"Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear."
Fear
"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."
Writing
"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us."
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"The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control."
Control
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