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Snow Queen/Hans Christian Andersen: interesting new take /weaving of mythhistory.Lost Girls: lovely Peter Pan retelling, with a good ending - I hate it when it was all just a dream.
Tough Alice: in Wonderland. Good puns.
Blown Away: Wizard of Oz. Inte ...more "
“What was the matter with Mr Nicolson, Dad?'
'His boy Baillie is dead and his heart's broke.'
'If I went to war and I was shot, would your heart be broke?'
'Yeah,' said the Nun. 'Now shut up.”
― Swords and Crowns and Rings
'His boy Baillie is dead and his heart's broke.'
'If I went to war and I was shot, would your heart be broke?'
'Yeah,' said the Nun. 'Now shut up.”
― Swords and Crowns and Rings
“No cooking will be required today,' said Uncle Ambrose airily. Merely cold meat and salad and so on. I hope to spend the day writing in my library, but shall be available for consultation if required.'
He left the kitchen with a light and happy tread, for it wasn't often these days that he could devote many consecutive hours to writing, but Ezra sighed. The gentry always seemed to think that cold meat and potato salad and orange jelly fell already chilled from heaven. They failed to grasp the fact that meat has to be hot before it is cold and jelly liquid before it solidifies.”
― Linnets and Valerians
He left the kitchen with a light and happy tread, for it wasn't often these days that he could devote many consecutive hours to writing, but Ezra sighed. The gentry always seemed to think that cold meat and potato salad and orange jelly fell already chilled from heaven. They failed to grasp the fact that meat has to be hot before it is cold and jelly liquid before it solidifies.”
― Linnets and Valerians
“We can't go around killing everybody, Alvin sweetest,' said the witch piously, "for if we did, we'd have no subjects left.”
― How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
― How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
“The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor.”
― Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
― Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
“(I asked because the humans would bug me for the information; I was as indifferent to human gender as it was possible to be without being unconscious.)”
― System Collapse
― System Collapse
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