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“I am Romany. My people have dealt with magic for centuries. We have built up certain… resistances. At first, I was oblivious, the same as everybody else, but the longer the spell was in effect, the more it failed to get through my natural
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Ah of course, because all Romani people are magic.
“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
“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
“Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.”
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“She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.”
― 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
Amy (Sun)’s 2025 Year in Books
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