“Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.”

— Frances Hardinge, book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

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British children's writer 1973

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