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“What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling.
This wasn't a totally new idea to me. I'd already spent 14 years writing a fantasy novel without a single sword-fight, goblin army, or looming apocalypse. I had specifically avoided having a god-lion tortured to death, or farm boys straight-up murk any tyrants or mad wizards. Nobody destroyed anything in a volcano thereby ruining magic forever and making all the elves sad enough to fuck off forever out of the world.”
― The Narrow Road Between Desires
This wasn't a totally new idea to me. I'd already spent 14 years writing a fantasy novel without a single sword-fight, goblin army, or looming apocalypse. I had specifically avoided having a god-lion tortured to death, or farm boys straight-up murk any tyrants or mad wizards. Nobody destroyed anything in a volcano thereby ruining magic forever and making all the elves sad enough to fuck off forever out of the world.”
― The Narrow Road Between Desires

“I hope you know this truth down in the middle of your bones: You are amazing. You are fantastic. You are beautiful and brave and full of love. You are as lovely as the moon.”
― The Narrow Road Between Desires
― The Narrow Road Between Desires

“Names are fine,鈥 Bast said, shrugging with one shoulder. 鈥淏ut if you know what something鈥檚 called, it鈥檚 hard to keep wondering what it is.鈥 He gestured. 鈥淭he embrils aren鈥檛 like names that pin things to a page. Their nature is to twist and change. They remind us that the world is vast and deep. They teach us of the distance between catch and keep.”
― The Narrow Road Between Desires
― The Narrow Road Between Desires

“Bast knew true silence was unnatural. To a careful ear, silence sounded like a knife in the dark.”
― The Narrow Road Between Desires
― The Narrow Road Between Desires

“There is something comforting about a stone marked, presumably for eternity, with the name of your loved one. I”
― A Matter of Death and Life
― A Matter of Death and Life
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