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"She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth."
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"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
"I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you."
"Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority."
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
"Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment."
"She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth."
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"While I was looking the other way your fire went outLeft me with cinders to kick into dustWhat a waste of the wonder you wereIn my living fire I will keep your scorn and mineIn my living fire I will keep your heartache and mineAt the disgrace of a waste of a life."
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"Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart."
"She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her."
"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."
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