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• I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I'd been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.

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  Husband, Drinking, Adventure

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.62, Small Beer Press

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• You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren't quite ready to give up on him yet.

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  Giving Up, Home, Heart

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

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  Makeup, Hair, People

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• You should never poison a witch.

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  Poison, Witch, Should

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.124, Small Beer Press

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• Nobody tells her to shut up. It would be pointless. Amy has a large heart and an even larger mouth. When it rains, Amy rescues worms off the sidewalk. When you get tired of having a secret, you tell Amy. Understand: Amy isn't that much stupider than anyone else in the story. It's just that she thinks out loud.

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  Rain, Tired, Heart

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

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  Hurt, Reading, Play

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.18, Small Beer Press

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• The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

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  People, Tree, World

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.309, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

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  Men, Evil, Too Much

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.76, Small Beer Press

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• I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.

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  Grateful, Eye, Perspective

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• Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

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  Moving, Enough, Faster

  Aliette de Bodard, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Caroline M. Yoachim, Catherynne M. Valente, Isabel Yap (2016). “Uncanny Magazine Issue 11: July/August 2016”, p.78, Uncanny Magazine

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• We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.

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  Sweet, Moon, Bed

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.207, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

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  Light, Hair, Doors

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• I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...

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  Writing, Voice, Listening

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

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  Sex, Hate, Real

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• You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

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  Writing, Love Is, Romance

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

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  Summer, Winter, Hair

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.60, Small Beer Press

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• I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.

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  Writing, Soul, Finals

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• The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

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  Real, People, Zombie

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.38, Small Beer Press

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• When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

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  Awards, Two, Three

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

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  Reality, Dating, Looking Good

  "Magic for Beginners". Book by Kelly Link, 2005.

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• When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

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  Night, Long, Up All Night

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• I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.

  Kelly Link

  Strong, Hate, Silly

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

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  Eye, Views, Blind

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• No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

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  Kings, War, Soldier

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

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  Editors, Panic, Sparks

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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