And so shame is added to her sorrow, but that’s okay. For her, sorrow is so deep, the shame is no more than a hard pebble thrown into the vast emptiness.
Blink & Caution, Tim Wynne-Jones
‘She ain’t pretty; she just looks that way.’
Blink & Caution, Tim Wynne-Jones
‘Oh, it’s the easiest thing in the world to know what people call themselves.’
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
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It was a hard world to know anymore.
My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares
She is my doing and my undoing.
My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares
‘The world’s not much of a story if you don’t know who the character are.’
The Blue Girl, Charles de Lint
He walked because he could not bear to fall.
Range of Ghosts (Eternal Sky #1), Elizabeth Bear
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Letters were a way of talking so anyone could hear you at any time. Like standing on the corner repeating yourself forever, but without the endless effort. Their shapes were strange, though, bearing no resemblance to their sounds— bent trees and stumbling drunkards and the wandering of chickens.
Green, Jay Lake
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All my life I have felt destiny tugging at my sleeve.
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1),Jasper Fforde
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Expect the worst of man, tradition said, and you will never be surprised. Expect the worst of the world and you will never be disappointed.
In Conquest Born, C.S. Friedman
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‘How much time does a dream take? Thought takes less. This is real only to us, and only in the moment we live it.’
In Conquest Born, C.S. Friedman
