Frances Hardinge Quotes

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• Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to…
• Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
• True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
• If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.
• Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove…
• Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much…
• If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing…
• The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.
• Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
• I want my chirfugging goose back!
• You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
• I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.
• Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks.…
• Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.
• If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.
• My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray…
• Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.
• Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with…
• Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep…
• Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his…

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