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  1. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    This word, the people in it- my mother, Tantine- they sort us. Put us in crates. are an egg. are a potato. are a cabbage. They tell us who we are. What we will do. What we will be.""Because they're afraid. Afraid of what we be." Tavi said."But we let them do it!" Hugo said angrily. "Why?""Tavi gave him a rueful smile. "Because we're afraid of what we could be, too.
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  2. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    I'll give her the chance to change the path she is on. The chance to make her path.""Fool," said the crone. "You understand nothing of mortals. We Fates map out their lives because they wish it. Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." "Change is a kiss in the dark. A rose in the snow. A wild road on a windy night." Chance countered.
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  3. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    You will stop Chance from taking hold of the girl?" asked the mother.The crone smiled grimly. "No, I cannot. But I will do what we Fates have always done. I will stop the girl from taking hold of a chance.
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  4. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    Ghosts are not the dead, come back from the grave to torment the living; ghosts are already here. They live inside us, keening in the ashes of our sorrows, mired in the thick, clutching mud of our regrets."
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  5. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She's free to please herself.
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  6. Jennifer Donnelly _ Stepsister

    But an ugly girl? Ah, child, the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.
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