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01Undated

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

Emily Croy Barker / quote

02Undated

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.

Emily Croy Barker / quote

03Undated

No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.

Emily Croy Barker / quote

04Undated

And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.

Emily Croy Barker / quote

05Undated

Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

Emily Croy Barker / quote