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 “…His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman’s hands. Or maybe she hadn’t been patient. Maybe she’d been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.”

Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
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"А душа, уж это точно, ежели обожжена,
 Справедливей, милосерднее и праведней она."

-- Булат Окуджава, Музыкант (x)
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" I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking"

-- Dorothy Sayers, via Peter Wimsey in Have His Carcase
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 I finally changed my URL! I was really, really sick of being bluejayfic.
 
Why pilfered-words? Because in this as in other situations, my first port of call was finding a fitting quotation. I steal words like magpies steal shiny things, I hoard my quotes like a particularly well-read dragon. Writing is hard. Quoting is easy and natural.



 

(crosspost)

Dec. 1st, 2017 08:09 am
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 (Responding to this post about Gen being saved by Hamiathes’s gift)

 
I remember the queen coming to me one night to offer me Hamiathes’s Gift, but I told her I preferred to die. I’d had enough of Hamiathes’s Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality. There is something horrible and frightening and, I’d discovered, very, very painful about being trapped in this life when it is time to move on. 
 
Yup.
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"Каждый пишет, как он слышит, 
каждый слышит, как он дышит, 
как он дышит, так и пишет, 
не стараясь угодить… 
Так природа захотела, 
почему – не наше дело, 
для чего – не нам судить." 


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Random Person on the Internet: Here's a quote, I'm not sure where it comes from exactly! It doesn't really matter, it just worked really well in my fic!
 
Me: OK, time to spend two hours researching the exact source and original context of the quote. 

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