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“I can't," I said. "I have a crown. If it means anything, it means this."
"Then leave it," she said. "Leave it, Irinushka. It's only sorrow on sorrow."
I bent and kissed her cheek. "Help me put it on," I said softly, and she went and took it with tears in her eyes”
― Spinning Silver
"Then leave it," she said. "Leave it, Irinushka. It's only sorrow on sorrow."
I bent and kissed her cheek. "Help me put it on," I said softly, and she went and took it with tears in her eyes”
― Spinning Silver
“You refused him,” he said to me, almost angrily. “I’m not a fool, to take gifts from monsters,” I said. “Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price.” He laughed, a little shrill and sharp. “Yes, the trick is to have someone else pay it for you,”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“I didn't really understand what mothers were, because mine was in a tree, but I knew they were very good things and you were very angry and sad if you lost them.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“My lady, I did not think you could answer it, when I took you from your home without your leave, and set value only on your gift. But I am answered truly. You have given fair return for insult thrice over and set your worth: higher than my life and all my kingdom and all who live therein, and though you send my people to the fire, I can claim no debt to repay. It is justly done.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
Christina K’s 2025 Year in Books
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