Emma Bull Quotes

#1. You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything. Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.

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#2. She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

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#3. Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

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#4. You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it

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#5. Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

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#6. Do you remember, we used to long to cut our hair, dress in boy's clothes, and run off to the gipsies? Irresponsible, we were told, and dangerous. No, the real danger is that running away to the gipsies is fairy food. Had we done it, neither of us would have thought of coming back.

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#7. We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

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#8. We're all immortal until we die.

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#9. Are you decent?" Tick-Tick called through the door.
I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed.

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#10. You have to break an omelette to make eggs.

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#11. Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

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#12. You're good, did you know that?'

Oh, yes.

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#13. The way to get through normal life is to pretend it isn't getting to you. If you let on that you're hurt, the other animals will turn on you and tear you to pieces. Don't attract the attention of predators.

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#14. If you were anyone else, I'd tell you it's unbecoming to gloat."
But you'd tell me ... "
That even gloating becomes you. It's a sad thing, an intelligent woman in love.

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#15. I've told you that I'm a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.

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#16. To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.'
Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?'
He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

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#17. You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

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#18. We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away.

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#19. Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?'
He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

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#20. Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

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#21. They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

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#22. It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

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#23. She felt ... new, just-made. She felt as if everything she had ever done out of weakness or fear had been undone, and all of her past washed clean.

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#24. If the obligations of friendship are constraints, then I am so constrained.

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#25. I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

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