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"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."
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"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."
"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
"You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."
"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
"Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while."
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"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"
"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
"Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses-one black, one white, and the third red."
"Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't."
"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."
"Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts."
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