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“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Difficult to “move on” from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.”
― Toni Morrison, Recitatif

“The first thing we do on a dark night is look up. Always.”
― K.J. Sutton, Restless Slumber

“I don't have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me and once they have got across me I feel empty and nothing is left.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture