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Uprooted

Name: Uprooted
Author: Naomi Novik

Uprooted is a 2015 high fantasy novel written by Naomi Novik. The book is standalone, unlike Novik's other fantasy series.Ellen DeGeneres will produce the movie adaptation; Warner Brothers purchased the rights.

“There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.”

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“He wasn’t a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.”

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“I had hated him, but I wouldn't have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn't a…”

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“You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing”

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“I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.”

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“The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.”

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“He snorted. “He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero.” None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.”

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“Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--"
"Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.”

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“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.”

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“I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling thewasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with.”

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“And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”

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“I’m not stupid, nor a liar,” I said, “and if I can’t do any good, I can at least do something”

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“Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.”

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“He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled.”

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“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”

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“His name tasted of fire and wings, of curling smoke, of subtlety and strength and the rasping whisper of scales.”

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“I wanted to rub handprints through his dust”

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“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”

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“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”

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“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

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