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"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."

"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"

"For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories."

"Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell."

"Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing.""I like it" said Pablo. "I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what."

"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."

"I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn."

"Stories are a communal currency of humanity."

"But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger."

"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."
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"No. She will never be queen. She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked."

"You mean she doesn't intend to blow me up before the ceremony? said Kai, taking the box. "How disappointing."

"Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds.""I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body."

"Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are."

"I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him."

"This is Winter," said Scarlet. "Princess Winter."Thorne guffawed and pushed a hand into his hair. "Are we running a boardinghouse for misplaced royalty around here, or what?"

"What? Really? And I thought I was just emotionally withdrawn. She pulled her feet up, hugging her knees. "I'm also incapable going to be your next brilliant observation."

"Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. "You came for me.He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero."Don't sound so surprised. Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. "It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market."
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