12 Quotes by Delia Sherman


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    My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.

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    All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to you. Correspondence has always been as necessary to my happiness as a well-cooked dinner, and I've found it more sustaining for its generosity: an act of charity that returned to me a hundredfold...

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    I can’t rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

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    I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

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    The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn’t actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it’s because there’s a lot of very cool folklore about it.

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    Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

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    What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?

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