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The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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We were making jokes while unspeakable things chased us in the dark. Maybe that’s why we were making jokes.

Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

by Neil Gaiman

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“The core of being a witch is that you don’t fall down while there’s work to be done. Sometimes that means you invent work to keep yourself standing upright.”
― T. Kingfisher, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

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“Second, my long years of research have taught me that all stories, even the meanest folktales, matter. They are artifacts and palimpsests, riddles and histories. They are the red threads that we may follow out of the labyrinth.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“Inspiration knocks now and again, but spite bangs on the door all year long.”
― T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys

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“Goats respected her. Goats respect very little, but they recognized some of themselves in her, and so they gave her what courtesy goats give to each other. (This is hardly any, of course, but a trifle more than none at all.) The Judas goat that worked in the slaughterhouse considered her a colleague instead of a necessary annoyance.”
― T. Kingfisher, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

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