Kirsty Logan Quotes

#1. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.

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#2. Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen secret selves hidden inside. She thought I didn't notice her, but she's all I did notice.

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#3. The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.

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#4. But life is not a fairy tale. It's brighter and darker, longer and briefer, duller and more magical. It's full of contradictions, but one thing it's not is neat.

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#5. We fall asleep as close as ears of wheat: chest to back, fingers entwined. I kiss the skin at the nape of her neck, soft like rabbit fur. I dream of nothing.

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#6. It's a grace feather. See how its colors shift from green to blue, like the sea? It means remembrance. It shows that no distance, no amount of water between two people, will make them forget. Someone gave it to say that they remembered you.

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#7. Once upon a time there was an empress, trapped as a ghost in the ruins of a jewelled palace, cursed to find another soul to take her place. At least, that's what the empress heard. But, as it turned out, stories can have any ending you like.

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#8. Maybe that's when we see the truth of things, when all the beauty is stripped away.

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#9. I've thought and thought, but there's no other way to give you the truth except to hide it in a story and let you find your own way inside. All stories contain a truth if you look hard enough - but it might not be a good truth.

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#10. That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

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#11. We don't belong anywhere, because we can belong everywhere.

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#12. Is it really a choice when we have no other option?

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#13. What's the use of a clown who doesn't subvert?

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#14. Many ways to fly, but only one way to fall.

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#15. It began with the Christmas tree lights. They were candy-bright, mouth-size. She wanted to feel the lightness of them on her tongue, the spark on her tastebuds. Without him life was so dark, and all the holiday debris only made it worse. She promised herself she wouldn't bite down.

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#16. She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers.

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#17. Spectacle is grounded in the illusion of control.

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#18. Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.

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#19. On the outside, grief was expressed in judders, faltering and unsure, but inside it felt as constant as breathing.

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