“You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 3 (p. 635)
“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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