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“It is difficult to give thought to the stars when the ground is swallowing you up.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“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

“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

“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
― Lord Dunsany