The Knight and the Butcherbird
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She knew me then, at the beginning of ourselves, and she knew me now, here at the end, when she did not even know herself.
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I couldn’t stop smiling—the euphoric, hysteric smile of a woman who has been lying on her lover’s grave and has just felt the earth move beneath her.
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Why do people change, Sir John? Because they are cursed, pursued, poisoned, trapped, under siege. Because they have to.
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Finch always said there were certain places where it was easier to tell stories, and to hear them: around a fire at night, in the mist at dawn, on a porch at dusk. In-between places, balanced on the border between familiar and strange.
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love is whatever you’re willing to kill for.