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But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.
Spinning Silver (2018)
All of magic essentially involves sneaking something you want past reality while it’s distracted and looking the other way.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.
Spinning Silver (2018)
Thrice, mortal maiden,” in a rhyme almost like a song, “Thrice you shall turn silver to gold for me, or be changed to ice yourself.
Spinning Silver (2018)
I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
Temeraire series (2006)
When you speak the future, you shape the future.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
And I wasn’t old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.
Uprooted (2015)
She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.
Spinning Silver (2018)
A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true
Spinning Silver (2018)
I am not your subject or your servant, and if you want a cowering mouse for a wife, go find someone else who can turn silver to gold for you.
Spinning Silver (2018)
But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.
Spinning Silver (2018)
By mundane standards, it was a cozy little place, the sort that a real estate listing would call charming, meaning not quite as large as you’d like.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women’s work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.
Spinning Silver (2018)
It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn’t want it after all.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
You feel like it's going to rain.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
“There’s no such thing as normal people, I said, a desperate flailing. “There’s just people, and some of them are miserable, and some of them are happy, and you’ve the same right to be happy as any of them—no more and no less.
Scholomance fantasy series (2020)
Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, “And what will you give me in return?
Spinning Silver (2018)