Pamela Dean Quotes

#1. Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

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#2. Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

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#3. Their shadows sported over the hills like cats, chasing the sunlight over sparkling granite and dull slate, the bright dry grass and the small hidden gleams of water.

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#4. So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal?

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#5. The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

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#6. My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feeltrue to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

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#7. Why do all your friends talk like books?

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#8. At the moment, if you asked me, I would say that this book is about keeping the heart of flesh in a world that wants to put in a heart of stone; and about how, regardless of the accusations regularly flung at them from all quarters, learning and literature can help their adherents accomplish that.

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#9. It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

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#10. So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.'
Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?'
That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes?

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#11. It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

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#12. Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest.

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#13. I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.

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#14. Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

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