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I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree.

— Elizabeth Hand Apocalypse Descending (2002)

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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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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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