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"It takes a village to raise a book from a vulnerable manuscript into a strong and beautiful object.”

"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I made you and you made me."

"Some things matter more than winning."

"Carry hunger all your days. Let it guard you, guide you, save you."

"If Blue were a scholar-and she has played one enough times to know she would have loved to be-she would catalogue, across all strands, a comprehensive study of the worlds in which Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, and in which a comedy. It delights her, whenever visiting a new strand, to take in a performance not knowing how it will end."

"I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."

"Viewed from sufficient height, all problems are simple."

"I sought loneliness when I was young. You've seen me there: on my promontory, patient and unaware. But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me."

"Assassinations become assignations."

"All good stories travel from the outside in."