“The path is eternal,” he said. “But you mustn’t sleep—I made that mistake. Turn left at the ghosts with ash in their hair, then left at the evergreen wood, and straight through the vale where my brother will die. If you lose your way, you
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“But then again, there’s nothing intrinsically valuable about any kind of art. That’s not me complaining or making light. It’s one of the most wonderful aspects to art—the fact that people decide what is beautiful. We don’t get to decide what is food and what is not. (Yes, exceptions exist. Don’t be pedantic. When you pass those marbles, we’re all going to laugh.) But we absolutely get to decide what counts as art.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“The fourth was the most ridiculous of all; an entire hot air balloon burst forth, made from gaudy silks in a dozen different colours. It drifted a few feet off the floor, bouncing gently off the display cases.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Such a paper would no doubt secure me an invitation to any conference I desired, though I will note that, as we fled the assassins surging out of the clouds, I was not worried about conferences, or at least they were not at the forefront of my thoughts.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“I knew I was being unkind, as his need for cleanliness is, I think, more compulsion than preference, but I was too irritated to care.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“That was when the second party of sheerie made their entrance, smashing through the museum doors in a hail of splintered wood. I wondered if they were unaware of how human doors operated, or if they simply enjoyed a dramatic entrance. I say second party, though I can only assume they were different sheerie; the creatures did not look alike, but they were so peculiar to my mortal eyes that I struggled to compare them.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
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