People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

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But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

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Mots clés negotiation haircuts

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Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.

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Mots clés humor cats magic purring

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The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

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I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in... loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

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Mots clés fate making-a-difference timing accidents coincidence

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I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much."
"But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly.
I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

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It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.

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But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.

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There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

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