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Magic is practiced in the world, whether you believe it or not; it is used to guard over sick children and to ward off the foxes from the coop. People believe in magic. The magic may not alter anything, but their beliefs still guide their actions.

Perhaps now their friendship could be repaired? Perhaps. But the strangeness between them had become a habit, and habits were hardest to fix.

Oh Himu, I am alive. I want to be alive, I want to want things, I want so much. I choose to live.

Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip.
Barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me,
not like you think, all darkness and silence.

A matronizing silence. She wanted Baru to answer, and being a school-taught fool Baru couldn’t help but do it.

All that Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known.

You sound like you’re in love,” Abdumasi says. “I read that you can fall in love with someone before you’ve ever met them. And when you see them at last, you say, ‘Oh, that’s why I hurt,’ like you just found an old splinter buried in your foot.”

She is the part of humanity that will love anything, find meaning in anything, build a new civilization out of anything, because it’s a compulsion with us.

I just know that I woke up and I found my way back to you.

What I mean is, you changed my life. And then, I changed your life. And now, we change our lives.

Is there a pill for when the image of a trumpet vine comes into your head? Will it erase it? Erase the voice saying, You should kiss me like it’s good-bye? Erase the tuxedo jacket, or at least the face above it? Erase the whole nine years?

There’s no revelation coming, no twist, no big rescue. There never has been. It’s just us and Garbagetown, forever into the blue, just life, just going on until it all falls apart, because everything does eventually. There’s nobody else out there but more us.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars...

Elphie, I stood by her when you abandoned her in Shiz. As you abandoned me. You did, don’t deny it, stop those lightning bolt looks at me, I won’t have it.

The small was reflected in the large, the meek did have power to move the great, a kind word to a stranger could alter the fate of nations: for the great was made out of the small, and the world was made out of people.

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”

It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?

Why would you do that?
I live a meaningless life.
No. You’re… you’re a great friend.
I’m… I’m a skilled imitator.

Why would you do that?
I live a meaningless life.
No. You’re… you’re a great friend.
I’m… I’m a skilled imitator.

At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you wanna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.

Not the last voice in the world she had expected to hear: not, after all, Tain Hu’s voice. But precious anyway, as unexpected as a shaft of moonlight in a cave.

No. People are not coins. They are not for you to sacrifice for your own use. Whatever you expect to gain from the Cancrioth, Baru, it will not make the world you want. It will only tear the wound wider.

You'll have a scar but... it will be easily hidden.

But now, seeing Custas and the music I’ve been able to give him… I can say with great certainty. It is the one thing of value i’ve managed to accomplish with my life.

I have passed through fire.

Help us, Erik. Cave one. It’s the right thing to do. We are all dead and you are too late. But you’ll come anyway, won’t you? Because you’re a fool. You’re my dancing little fool. Come to die for the dead.

Mabel Martin, what do you see in the heart of the collapsing star?
This house. The kingdom beyond the firmament. I saw you. I saw you. I saw you.

I never stop thinking about you. How things could have been. How you could have taken me with you.

But now, seeing Custas and the music I’ve been able to give him… I can say with great certainty. It is the one thing of value i’ve managed to accomplish with my life.

We're in the same place. Exactly the same place. Come here. Come. Step closer. Look. If you look at me, who do I look at?