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“Men, they feel nothing like what we must endure. You have to make room in yourself for him, and that is the same in a house as in a body. See that you keep some rooms in yourself, locked up tight.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
― Goblin Market and Other Poems
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
― Goblin Market and Other Poems
“You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.”
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