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• Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

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  Fierce, Needles

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

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  Thinking, Smell, Safe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.354, Macmillan

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• Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

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  Real, Magic, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.26, Macmillan

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• She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

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  Hands, Class, Answers

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.193, Macmillan

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• True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

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  Wind, Names, Parent

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.223, Macmillan

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• She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

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  Princess, Sleep, Dark

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• No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

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  Names, Skins, Safe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

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  Fall, Sides, Criminals

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.

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  Laughter, Fun, Heart

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• And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

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  Thinking, Mad, Left

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.22, Macmillan

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• A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

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  Labyrinth, World, Enough

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.524, Macmillan

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• I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

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  Girl, Reading, Long

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

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  Thinking, Destiny, Use

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• When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

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  Running, World, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.195, Macmillan

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• Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn’t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn’t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

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  Goodbye, Mother, Father

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.39, Feiwel & Friends

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