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Stranger Things Happen

  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    She's disguised as a young woman. Her eyes are keen and they flash a lot.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    No one has ever explained to the girl detective why her mother left, although it must have been to do something very important. Possibly she died. That would be important enough, almost forgivable.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    This child, radioactive with curiosity, bit the girl detective, and in that instant the girl detective suddenly saw all of these answers, all at once.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    When you travel, everything's always new. If you don't speak the language, it isn't a big deal. Nobody expects you to understand everything they say. You can wear the same clothes every day and the other travelers will be impressed with your careful packing. When you wake up and you're not sure where you are. There's a perfectly good reason for that.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    That was the great tragedy, the inconvenient unseaworthiness of memories and boats and letters, that events never remained themselves long enough for you to insert yourself into them…
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    A swan, a bull, a shower of gold, something new, something old, something borrowed, something blue.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    Of course he wasn't dead: she'd read the book. He'd explained the whole thing to her. When you're immortal, you don't die. Half-immortal, she corrected herself. So maybe half-dead, she could live with that.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    The dead flicker like candles around you. They are burning their memories for warmth.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    He came to the conclusion that it was a silly question, and that if he didn't answer it correctly, Rachel wasn't going to marry him. He wasn't entirely sure that he wanted to give the correct answer, even if he knew what it was.
  • Elena Radovskayahas quoted8 years ago
    She grinned at him in what might have been a friendly fashion, except that at some point after dinner, she had removed her dentures.
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