Stefan Bachmann Quotes

#1. Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.

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#2. Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.

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#3. I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

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#4. Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.

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#5. The staircase was a mass of rotting wood, carved with such cruel-looking mermaids that Mr. Jelliby was afraid to put his hand on the banister.

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#6. He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

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#7. Stop it, Misha. Stop being so frightened of everything. But she couldn't stop. She carried fear with her like a little animal, curled in the nook behind her heart, and it whispered to her. You are weak, you are frightened, and you will never dare do anything at all.

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#8. It was called the Smiling War because it left so many skulls, white and grinning, in the fields.

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#9. There's this special talent that humans have that they can be unhappy no matter where they are. But humans have another special talent: We can be happy almost anywhere, too. We can be happy because we're not alone.

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#10. Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.

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#11. Her voice was loud and cheerful, the way it was when nothing was well and she was determined not to show it.

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#12. But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We have disease and cruelty, and not a breath of air or freedom. You cannot say our lives are easy, any more than I can say yours is. They are lives, and so they are HORRID!

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#13. I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little heart, Disney princess-style. I did end up in a palace, so that's cool.

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#14. Pikey Thomas dreamed of plums and caramel apples the night the faery-with-the-peeling-face stole his right eye.

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#15. A word could cause a riot, ink could spell a man's death, and the Sidhe knew those weapons like the backs of their hands. Oh yes, they knew.

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