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“All writers are insane!”
“So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and...”
“Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending...”
“Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.”
“It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.”
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Le...”
“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.”
