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There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
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I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!
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This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
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What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
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The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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All children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.
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The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. “All little girls are terrible,” he admitted finally, “but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat."
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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