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• And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

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  Thinking, Mad, Left

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

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  Fall, Sides, Criminals

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.131, Macmillan

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• The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

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  Blessing, Youth, Enough

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

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  Looks, Proud, Littles

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• It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

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  Latin, Government, Language

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.618, Macmillan

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

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  Clever, Selfish, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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• I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

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  Elephants, Different, Had Enough

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• Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

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  Hats

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.26, Macmillan

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• September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

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  Children, Feelings, Lasts

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.500, Macmillan

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• Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

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  Trying, Doe, World

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• Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

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  Girl, Yarn, Track

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• There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

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  Winter, Mushrooms, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.214, Macmillan

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• Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

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  Grief, Might, Causes

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.

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  Fall, Sleep, Men

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

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  Lying, Liars, Writing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

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  Butterfly, Childhood, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.23, Macmillan

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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

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  Sleep, Kissing, Wind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

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  Princess, Sleep, Dark

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• Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

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  Sweet, Husband, Lying

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.109, Macmillan

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• True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

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  Wind, Names, Parent

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.223, Macmillan

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• You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.

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  Children, Heart, Eye

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.26, Feiwel & Friends

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• The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.

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  Dark, Men, Hair

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

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  War, Bridges, Black

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• I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

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  Heart, Glasses, Years

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• No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

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  War

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.345, Macmillan

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