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“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.'… Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

“Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.”

“She put a wedge beside my heart
And then she brought the mallet down
She sang no song to guide her work
I lost my heart without a sound”

“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming… I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

“Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..”

“Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident”

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”

“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”

“Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."
No, I'm not," said Ani.
Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?”

“Look no farther than your hand,
Make a choice and take a stand.”

“She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.”

“You've been quiet lately… but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”

“Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.”

“Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.”

“… fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.”

“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”