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She stepped through to the headquarters of the Agency of Undercover Note Takers. A.U.N.T. was England’s most secret intelligence agency, fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. It had been established in the reign of Henry
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“Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls or a Scarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs.”
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“Marriage, it seemed to me, walled my favorite fictional women off from the worlds in which they had once run free, or, if not free, then at least forward, with currents of narrative possibility at their backs. It was often at just the moment that their educations were complete and their childhood ambitions coming into focus that these troublesome, funny girls were suddenly contained, subsumed, and reduced by domesticity.”
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
“One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy.”
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“She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.”
― The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
― The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?”
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
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