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“Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.”
“The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.”
“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she ...”
“Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of ...”
“The most perfect solitude must entail the absence of all beings, but it must also tremble with the light of life. For example, a perfect solitude may find itself haunted by lives born of the imagin...”
“The wall sawyer did not ask the little queen what she did. This was because in the little queens kingdom, people only volunteered their doings if they wanted to, and they never asked others their d...”
“The little queens mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the life around her forever more, but they had not explained how she should go...”
“The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the life around her forever more, but they had not explained how she should g...”
