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• Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

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  Real, Magic, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.26, Macmillan

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• The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

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  Thinking, Smell, Safe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.354, Macmillan

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• I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

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  Girl, Reading, Long

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, Macmillan

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• She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

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  Hands, Class, Answers

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

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  Thinking, Destiny, Use

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• September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Dark

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

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  Heart, White, Onions

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

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  Heart, Causes, Trouble

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

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  Father, War, Shadow

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.576, Macmillan

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• Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

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  Fierce, Needles

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

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  Wall, Wine, Love Is

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• We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

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  Moon, Thinking, Rocks

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• ...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

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  Hook, Cry, Throat

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• However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Forgiving

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• I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

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  Lying, Book, Garden

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