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“. . .sunlight struck her skin a warmer tone; the clouds soared higher, plumper, a Renaissance painting hanging just above her head. Even the sea looked different, sheer as a sheet of colored glass. If Madeleine could take wing with the host of sparrows fluttering above the bay, she might peer all the way down into blue infinity.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

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“It seemed kinder to let him believe her silence was tranquil contemplation; that her newfound gravity was Madonna-like, not simply detachment. It occurred to her sometimes that she ought to feel guilty for her lack of feeling. She ought to feel shame, at least. But even those moments would slip away from her, fading off into insignificance.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

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“You’re a brand-new piece of sheet music,' she said slowly, 'for a song which, once played, I’d swear I’d always known.”
― Julie Berry

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“I was jealous of how he watched Hazel, drinking in her music like water and tasting how she dissolved herself in it like a sugar cube.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

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“For example, the word inspiration has an odd meaning for its evolution. It began its existence as the Latin verb spirare, which means “to breathe.” By adding in- to the front, a new verb was derived that meant “to breathe in/into.” This was turned into the noun inspirationem, which came to us by way of French. It should mean “breathing in,” a generic noun, but it instead makes reference to an unseen deity literally breathing into a human being in order to give them ideas about stuff. That’s inspiration.”
― David J. Peterson, The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

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