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- Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's…
- You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
- Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
- Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above…
- I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want…
- Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn…
- And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
- That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you…
- She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead,…
- What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
- All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
- When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home…
- Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must…
- She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You…
- I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could…
- How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the…
- Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
- I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it…
- The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
- Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in…
- Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my…
- Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a…
- Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate…
- I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see…
- ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space,…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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