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What a crazy place this was. Someone gets sick, and instead of dialing 911 you send for an obese old fortune-teller. The thought made her stomach churn; because of course that’s what her mother had done. Put her faith in fairy dust and crystals instead of physicians and chemo.

— Elizabeth Hand Last Summer at Mars Hill (1994)

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There's always a moment when everything changes.

Generation Loss (2007)

He even taught himself to play the viole de gambols, a true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

I never mentioned it to anyone. No one else ever spoke of seeing it.

Generation Loss (2007)

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