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Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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You always trade blood for joy. It’s always a deal struck in the wet and the dark. Al didn’t make the rules. He just dances to the song that’s playing.
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It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!
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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
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But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.
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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
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Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Eternity takes forever.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
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You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
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