Kiran Millwood Hargrave · 228 pages
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“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
“The threads of problems dangled in front of me, and I tried to think of a way to weave them into a solution. I”
“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”
“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon, and the constant battle with the wind was exhausting for us as well as the horses. Fierce”
“Of this tailor I ought not, of course, to say much, but since it is now the rule that the character of every person in a novel must be completely drawn, well, there is no help for it, here is Petrovich too.”
“You know the Wicked Witch of Tenth Street? - Ananka's mother, to Principal Wickham”
“It would undoubtedly be prudent for neither of us to attempt a sexual coup on one another again from the evidence of our reactions. Most definitely any outcome of an intended purpose would bound to be foiled from lack of focus.”
“So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.”
“Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn't see stare into nothing. They saw the situation, grieved for it, and faced it.”
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