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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

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“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”

“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”

“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”

“And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”

“Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--" "Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.”

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”

“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”

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