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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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Life outraces memory.
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It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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