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Helen Oyeyemi
“What you're doing is building a horrible kind of logic. People read what you write and they say, 'Yes, he is talking about things that really happen,' and they keep reading, and it makes sense to them. You're explaining things that can't be defended, and the explanations themselves are mad, just bizarre — but you offer them with such confidence. It was because she kept the chain on the door; it was because he needed to let off steam after a hard day's scraping and bowing at work; it was because she was irritating and stupid; it was because she lied to him, made a fool of him; it was because she had to die, she just had to, it makes dramatic sense; it was because 'nothing is more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman'; it was because of this, it was because of that. It's obscene to make such things reasonable.”
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

Richard Siken
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Max Gladstone
“A woman sat alone, beautiful and lost and full of rage so old it had become a dull ache deadening every newborn sensation.”
Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

Scott Lynch
“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

Catherynne M. Valente
“It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.”
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
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