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(3.88) | 106 | Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures. |
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For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
-SARA TEASDALE, "ALCHEMY"  Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
-LEWIS CARROLL, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light.
-X. J. KENNEDY, "STREET MOTHS," THE LORDS OF MISRULE I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves.
-ANNE SEXTON, "HER KIND" We must not look at goblin men.
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?
-CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, "GOBLIN MARKET" Nothing farther then he uttered -- not a feather than he fluttered --
Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before --
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
-EDGAR ALLAN POE, "THE RAVEN" Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-PHILIP K. DICK To these I turn, in these I trust -
Brother Lead and Sister Steel.
-SIEGFRIED SASSOON, THE OLD HUNTSMAN AND OTHER POEMS Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at morning and midday we drink you at evening
we drink and we drink
-PAUL CELAN, "DEATH FUGUE" Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
-WILLIAM BLAKE, "THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL" They love not poison that do poison need.
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, RICHARD II Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.
-G. K. CHESTERTON, ORTHODOXY And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine
Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet
With the split-out blood of the rose-red wine.
-OSCAR WILDE, "IN THE GOLD ROOM: A HARMONY" Immediately after the monsters, die the heroes.
-ROBERTO CALASSO, THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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For my husband, Theo, because he likes angsty, angry girls | |
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The tree woman choked on poison, the slow sap of her blood burning. | |
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