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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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• 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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• All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

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  Spring, Dancing, Stories

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.279, Macmillan

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

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  Beautiful, Cousin, Brother

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• When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

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  Running, World, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.195, Macmillan

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• Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn’t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn’t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

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  Goodbye, Mother, Father

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.39, Feiwel & Friends

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• The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

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  Girl, Littles, Messy

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, 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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• The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

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  Despair, Storm, September

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.241, Macmillan

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• I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

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  Thinking, Hands, Soul

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.217, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

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  Kissing, Soon Enough, Worry

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.327, Macmillan

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• But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

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  Girl, Fall, Bird

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.346, Macmillan

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• I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

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  Book, Needs

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, 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 perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

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  Children, Lying, Heart

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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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• 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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