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Nicola Griffith
“She said nothing, hoping her silence would goad him into explaining.”
Nicola Griffith, Hild

Joyce Carol Oates
“While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with eyes that engaged too directly, and too often ironically. Willy’s considerable charm was at first obscured, to the superficial eye, by a certain stolidity in her figure, as in her character.”
Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed

Nicola Griffith
“You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.”
Nicola Griffith, Hild

Nicola Griffith
“Wood is an endlessly adaptive material. You can plane, chisel, saw, carve, sand, and bend it, and when the pieces are the shape you want you can use dovetail joints, tenpenny nails, pegs or glue; you can use lamination or inlay or marquetry; and then you can beautify it with French polish or plain linseed oil or subtle stains. And when you go to dinner at a friend's house, the candlelight will pick out the contours of grain and line, and when you take your seat you will be reminded that what you are sitting on grew from the dirt, stretched towards the sun, weathered rain and wind, and sheltered animals; it was not extruded by faceless machines lined on a cold cement floor and fed from metal vats. Wood reminds us where we come from.”
Nicola Griffith, The Blue Place

Joyce Carol Oates
“I could wish that I had recourse to the Prince of Darkness & his quick ways of revenge;”
Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed

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