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“That was the truth at the very center of everything, the truth she had tried her whole life to evade: there were no fairies, no magic, and the world was just ordinary and cruel.”

“‘I will love you to ruination,” the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of gold hair from my cheek.
“Yours or mine?” I asked.
The Fairy King did not answer.”

“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them .”

I’m so interested in this book but goddamn this is slow this far.

“Somewhere … there must be a passage, a door between us and wherever magic had gone. It might be very small. It might not be entirely stable. Like the entrance to an underground cave it might be in danger of collapse. But it would be there. And if it was there, it was possible to find it.

Once you have found the door, it is always with you.”

“Somewhere … there must be a passage, a door between us and wherever magic had gone. It might be very small. It might not be entirely stable. Like the entrance to an underground cave it might be in danger of collapse. But it would be there. And if it was there, it was possible to find it.

Once you have found the door, it is always with you.”

“Are You a traveler who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls?”

“The realm of pretend had only just closed its doors to us, and light still leaked through around the edges.”

“She had not come to Great Mop to concern herself with the hearts of men. Let her stray up the valleys, and rest in the leafless woods that looked so warm with their core of fallen red leaves, and find out her own secret … she felt that nothing could ever again disturb her peace. Wherever she strayed the hills folded themselves around her like the fingers of a hand.”