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db4b189	The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.	death hindsight caring knowledge	Joanne Harris
da8b63a	We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.		Joanne Harris
5eb974c	Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.		Joanne Harris
0bbea1a	As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change. Of course, folk agreed that it was no..	prejudice labeling scapegoating superiority hypocrisy	Joanne Harris
78b640e	Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.	pain	Joanne Harris
cd9ea11	There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it).		Joanne Harris
357fe01	Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.		Joanne Harris
9052dce	Most problems can be solved through cake.		Joanne Harris
3904570	What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?		Joanne Harris
0ec1ee7	Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.		Joanne Harris
6512bcf	It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away."	love home	Joanne Harris
f76c3a9	Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki	humour funny humor loki	Joanne Harris
3c0716f	That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everyth..		Joanne Harris
b922859	Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.		Joanne Harris
520b541	I don't pretend to know much about love, but that's how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.	regret	Joanne Harris
ecd334a	Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.		Joanne Harris
3cdb9d5	From this I think we can all conclude that the cow was the primary instigator of everything that followed - war, Tribulation, the End of the Worlds. Lesson One: never trust a rumiant.		Joanne Harris
debb8ae	A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.		Joanne Harris
22f3303	It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.		Joanne Harris
42d814f	There's good news and slightly less good news.	loki good-news	Joanne Harris
c2cd724	You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif."	humour loki sarcasm	Joanne Harris
e8cc49d	I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark, this ring caused by a wet coffee cup, this cigarette burn, this ladder of cuts against the wood's coarse grain. This is where Anouk carved her initials, the year she was six years old, this secret place behind the table leg. I did this on a warm day seven summers ago w..		Joanne Harris
156dddf	And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.		Joanne Harris
7fcc4ac	Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.	self-esteem	Joanne Harris
1257fd1	Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place		Joanne Harris
a0da56a	Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)		Joanne Harris
815224e	Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?		Joanne Harris
3a854f7	Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite."	superstition	Joanne Harris
06d3d9a	I'm sorry. You went too far.' Lovely. What an epitaph.	loki thor	Joanne Harris
f9cd816	For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.	travel moving	Joanne Harris
72a9eed	There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.	love forgiveness patience loyalty	Joanne Harris
76df442	Garden work clears the mind.		Joanne Harris
b1484d4	Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.		Joanne Harris
eea49f1	Anything that can be dreamed is true.	truth	Joanne Harris
76f750d	Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.	flower	Joanne Harris
80e14b1	Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.	life philosophy wisdom	Joanne Harris
f2a2a0a	Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.		Joanne Harris
0eeb45d	he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later		Joanne Harris
045544c	All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper -- the weight of a human heart.		Joanne Harris
6622c1c	There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.		Joanne Harris
1dce3bb	People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.		Joanne Harris
b3afb09	Knowledge is currency here....	village small-town knowledge	Joanne Harris
73f3daa	This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.	love cooking	Joanne Harris
5e732ab	Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.		Joanne Harris

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

Joanne Harris

da8b63a

We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

Joanne Harris

5eb974c

Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.

Joanne Harris

0bbea1a

As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change. Of course, folk agreed that it was no..

prejudice labeling scapegoating superiority hypocrisy

Joanne Harris

78b640e

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

pain

Joanne Harris

cd9ea11

There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it).

Joanne Harris

357fe01

Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.

Joanne Harris

9052dce

Most problems can be solved through cake.

Joanne Harris

3904570

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

Joanne Harris

0ec1ee7

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Joanne Harris

6512bcf

It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away."

love home

Joanne Harris

f76c3a9

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

humour funny humor loki

Joanne Harris

3c0716f

That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everyth..

Joanne Harris

b922859

Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

Joanne Harris

520b541

I don't pretend to know much about love, but that's how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

regret

Joanne Harris

ecd334a

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

Joanne Harris

3cdb9d5

From this I think we can all conclude that the cow was the primary instigator of everything that followed - war, Tribulation, the End of the Worlds. Lesson One: never trust a rumiant.

Joanne Harris

debb8ae

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

Joanne Harris

22f3303

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

Joanne Harris

42d814f

There's good news and slightly less good news.

loki good-news

Joanne Harris

c2cd724

You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif."

humour loki sarcasm

Joanne Harris

e8cc49d

I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark, this ring caused by a wet coffee cup, this cigarette burn, this ladder of cuts against the wood's coarse grain. This is where Anouk carved her initials, the year she was six years old, this secret place behind the table leg. I did this on a warm day seven summers ago w..

Joanne Harris

156dddf

And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.

Joanne Harris

7fcc4ac

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

self-esteem

Joanne Harris

1257fd1

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

Joanne Harris

a0da56a

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

Joanne Harris

815224e

Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?

Joanne Harris

3a854f7

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite."

superstition

Joanne Harris

06d3d9a

I'm sorry. You went too far.' Lovely. What an epitaph.

loki thor

Joanne Harris

f9cd816

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

travel moving

Joanne Harris

72a9eed

There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.

love forgiveness patience loyalty

Joanne Harris

76df442

Garden work clears the mind.

Joanne Harris

b1484d4

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

Joanne Harris

eea49f1

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

truth

Joanne Harris

76f750d

Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.

flower

Joanne Harris

80e14b1

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

life philosophy wisdom

Joanne Harris

f2a2a0a

Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.

Joanne Harris

0eeb45d

he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later

Joanne Harris

045544c

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper -- the weight of a human heart.

Joanne Harris

6622c1c

There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.

Joanne Harris

1dce3bb

People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.

Joanne Harris

b3afb09

Knowledge is currency here....

village small-town knowledge

Joanne Harris

73f3daa

This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

love cooking

Joanne Harris

5e732ab

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.

Joanne Harris