Erin Bow Quotes

#1. He was a dandy with on eear cocked, a gleam on his claw and a glint in his eye. He sauntered through the market square elegant and tattered, admired and cursed: a highwayman, a gentleman thief. His name was Taggle, for the three kittens had been Raggle, Taggle, and Bone.

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#2. Let me tell you something that I learned from my youth, from a sage called the Road Runner. You can walk off a cliff and the air will hold you. Only, don't look down.

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#3. What is love but a pain we choose?

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#4. I- I. Sorry. This is what my father would call a fucking unfortunate image.

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#5. The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.

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#6. I have business to conduct in the language of fur and claw.

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#7. Then he said: "Y'all really took that Socratic method shit to heart."
"The benefits," I intoned, "of a Precepture education ."
"Yes," deadpanned Grego. "We were raised on Latin and Greek instead of love.

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#8. Go fast, Plain Kate, and travel light
Learn to walk the shadowy night
Without a shadow, flee from light
Become a shadow, truly

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#9. He was going to die. He deserved a chance to do it on his terms. No matter what it cost us.

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#10. I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

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#11. Perhaps it was time to stop choosing small places.

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#12. No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay.
Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal.

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#13. At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.

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#14. Even as the nannies came into heat - one could tell because they grew louder than roosters and started to sexually assault the water barrels - I

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#15. They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.

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#16. Plain Kate, Kate the Carver
No one's friend and no one's daughter
Little Kate might meet her fate
Whittling sticks till it's too late

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#17. It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

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#18. - the rusalka was kneeling beside Plain Kate on the deck. She was made of fog and shadow until Kate caught her eye, and then, all at once, she became human. She was young, mischievously sad, a fox in a story. Kate fell in love with her. And then she was gone.

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#19. Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. 'It's covered in BREAD,' he huffed. 'What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

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#20. Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

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#21. And then because hope will break the heart better than any sorrow, she started to cry.

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#22. No one likes them, because their ways are different,' Drina explained. 'Just like the Roamers - no one likes us either. So we have to like each other.

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#23. The root of holiness, it turns out, is to do things deliberately.

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#24. I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

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#25. Foggy little oxbows
Forest pools where no one goes
Lost links of the river dreaming dreams

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#26. I am not sure I can."
"Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.

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#27. You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

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#28. How useless are guns against those who are fearless. How foolish, to set force against innocence. Their own strength made them small. And

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#29. Stop the press," said Talis. "Ha! I haven't heard that in centuries. 'Stop the presses!' But do." The smile was sharp-edged. "Or I'll have your head on pikes.

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#30. Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

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#31. Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet. Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

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#32. Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.

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#33. and of course people started shooting, because that's what passes for problem-solving among humans. See, guys, this is why you can't have nice things. It

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#34. Be brave. Things will find their shape.

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#35. Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.

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#36. They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

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#37. There was a space inside me, cupped and still. It was small as cupped hands; it was large as the sky. It was untouched and it was touch itself. It was empty and it was full. I held love there, like a treasure. I held my own name.

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#38. Why would I come back to you?

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#39. As a wolf loves another wolf. As an eagle loves an eagle. You only, mine only. Through our whole walk through this world. Okishae.

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