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  1. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it.
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  2. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.
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  3. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    In short, he tried to teach me as best he could, and to advise me in my blundering through my new forest, though it was foreign country to him. He did still resent my success, not from jealousy but as a matter of principle: it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.
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  4. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.
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  5. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.
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  6. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?
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  7. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own eyes, your own tongue, while they kept talking all the while, smiling, horrible. And then they would take the knife and go inside your hpuse, to your children, while you lay outside blind and choking and helpless even to scream. If someone we loved was taken by the walkers, the only thing we knew to hope for them was death, and it could only be a hope.
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  8. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. Borys
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  9. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.
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  10. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    I hated him and his silence ferociously: I knew he was only letting me convince myself there was nothing to be done.
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  11. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I
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  12. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.
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