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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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“Understand from the first this certainty. Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are. That they don’t know they are alive—that they don’t feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“...there is always more than one way to see the world. Those who claim otherwise would have you dwell forever in the dark.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
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A pirate summer with mermaids and other ocean myths
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