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  1. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail.
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  2. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.
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  3. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    How far would we have to go to run from winter?
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  4. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died," I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. "The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third-that fools should recognize neither.
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  5. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    Little Irina must be a woman grown by now. A beauty, I have heard, surely?' It was more mockery: he had heard nothing of the sort, of course. I had traveled with my father; the court and his advisers knew I was nothing out of the ordinary, and hardly a girl to turn a young tsar's head - if he had been in any danger of turning his head at all, except perhaps all the way round like an owl."
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  6. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    I looked at Lukas. He did not look very pleased, but he did not look very sad either. He was only giving me a considering eye. I was a pig at the market he had decided to buy. He was hoping I fattened up well and gave him many piglets before it was time to make bacon.
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  7. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    I did not really need Magretta to tell me that love had caught my father like an unwilling fish, and having slipped the hook he had been glad to forget he had ever been on it in the first place.
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  8. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better to be turned to ice by the Staryk, who didn't pretend to be a neighbor.
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  9. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    I'd chosen- not the lesser evil, but the less immediate one.
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  10. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    I will lay my hand upon the flow of time, if need be, that you shall have however much of it you seek.
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  11. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    Lady, though you choose a home in the sunlit world, you are a Staryk queen indeed."
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  12. Naomi Novik _ Spinning Silver

    I worked very hard after that. I took as much of Da's work as I could. I didn't want to make a row of dead babies and die.
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