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“I guess it’s easy to be confident when you’re helpless, easy to be fearless when you have nothing left to lose”
― The Space Between Worlds
― The Space Between Worlds
“I have spent so long building up my fortress and learning to tend it all myself, because if I didn’t feel I needed anyone, then I wouldn’t miss them if they weren’t there. I couldn’t be neglected if I was everything to myself.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
I have a duty!”
― The Wee Free Men
I have a duty!”
― The Wee Free Men
“There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them. 'I would like to look at you' seems like such an awkward request.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Look, it's like a handshake," he said finally. "You know when some guy goes in for the shake and you've never met him before, and he puts it out there, and you just know in that moment right before the shake if it's going to be sweaty or not? It's like that."
"So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format."
"I did explain it," Ronan insisted, so ferociously that Chainsaw flapped, certain she was in trouble.”
― The Dream Thieves
"So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format."
"I did explain it," Ronan insisted, so ferociously that Chainsaw flapped, certain she was in trouble.”
― The Dream Thieves
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