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“She was young and lovely and surprised and dead. She was also blue. Blue as opals, pale blue. Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring - not summer - sky.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“The moon on a bracelet and the sun in a jar,” said Sarai. “We really wreak havoc on the heavens, don’t we?”
Lazlo’s voice sank deeper in his throat. Smokier. Hungrier. “I expect the heavens will survive,” he said, and then he kissed her.”
― Strange the Dreamer
Lazlo’s voice sank deeper in his throat. Smokier. Hungrier. “I expect the heavens will survive,” he said, and then he kissed her.”
― Strange the Dreamer
“It might have been brief, but so much of a kiss - a first kiss especially - is the moment before your lips touch, and before your eyes close, when you're filled with the sight of each other, and with the compulsion, the pull, and it's like...it's like...finding a book inside another book. A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one - like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. That's what a kiss is like, he thought, no matter how brief: It's a tiny, magical story, and a miraculous interruption of the mundane.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“You might come up with a solution to the problem that doesn't involve destruction."
Drave scoffed. "Doesn't involve destruction? That's like me asking you not to be a mealy-mouthed poltroon."
Lazlo's eyebrows shot up. "Poltroon?"
"Look it up," snapped Drave.
Lazlo turned to Ruza. "Do you think I'm a poltroon?" he asked, the way a young girl might ask whether her dress was unflattering.
"I don't know what that is."
"I think it's a kind of mushroom," said Lazlo, who knew very well was poltroon meant. Really, he was surprised that Drave did.
"You are absolutely a mushroom," said Ruza.
"It means 'coward,'" said Drave.
"Oh." Lazlo turned to Ruza. "Do you think I'm a coward?"
Ruza considered the matter. "More of a mushroom," he decided. To Drave: "I think you were closer the first time."
"I never said he was a mushroom."
"Then I'm confused.”
― Strange the Dreamer
Drave scoffed. "Doesn't involve destruction? That's like me asking you not to be a mealy-mouthed poltroon."
Lazlo's eyebrows shot up. "Poltroon?"
"Look it up," snapped Drave.
Lazlo turned to Ruza. "Do you think I'm a poltroon?" he asked, the way a young girl might ask whether her dress was unflattering.
"I don't know what that is."
"I think it's a kind of mushroom," said Lazlo, who knew very well was poltroon meant. Really, he was surprised that Drave did.
"You are absolutely a mushroom," said Ruza.
"It means 'coward,'" said Drave.
"Oh." Lazlo turned to Ruza. "Do you think I'm a coward?"
Ruza considered the matter. "More of a mushroom," he decided. To Drave: "I think you were closer the first time."
"I never said he was a mushroom."
"Then I'm confused.”
― Strange the Dreamer
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