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Middlegame
Seanan McGuire
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“You can't skip to the end of the story just because you're tired of being in the middle. You'd never survive.”
“Words can be whispered bullet-quick when no one's looking, and words don't leave blood or bruises behind. Words disappear without a trace. That's what makes them so powerful. That's what makes them so important. That's what makes them hurt so much.”
“People who say “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” don’t understand how words can be stones, hard and sharp-edged and dangerous and capable of doing so much more harm than anything physical.”
“Their past is littered with the unburied bodies of the people they chose never to become.”
“Numbers are simple, obedient things, as long as you understand the rules they live by. Words are trickier. They twist and bite and require too much attention.”
“Words don't mean anything without someone to understand them.”
“Time is a concept invented by men who didn’t want everything to keep happening at once. Time is irrelevant.”
“Hummingbird girl, running on caffeine and borrowed energy. He’s seen what happens when that energy runs out. He never wants to see it again.”
“This has never been about good and evil. This is about power. Who has it, who doesn't. Who knows how to use it.”
“Magic doesn't have to be flashy and huge. Sometimes it's the subtle things that are the most effective of all.”
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Book Keywords:
choices, life, pain, words, stories, time, power, past
