Fig Finds
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“There was something mystical lurking behind the glass of the train window.
I could feel it.
I had read the folklore. Foxes that protected rice storehouses, and white mice that emerged during the disasters that formed the world. Mirrors, magical swords, and curved jewels like commas. Deer herds that played messengers for the gods.
Not gods. Kami.
Local legends about the spirits—souls?—of animals, trees, and waterfalls. Souls that wandered through villages, and now the streets of Tokyo and Osaka.
Tokyo was eight hours away, Nagoya two hours away. We were buried in the wilderness, dark trees and snow drifts, barreling through the countryside in a local train towards a valley in the mountains. A place called Snow Country.”— E. R. Warren, The Wabi Sabi Travelogue -
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“Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.” - Laini Taylor, DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE
“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I’m still betting on you.” - Suzanne Collins, CATCHING FIRE
“Evie, if you ever get taken from me again, you better know that I’ll be coming for you.” - Kresley Cole, POISON PRINCESS
One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white charges and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home. - Jacqueline Kelly, THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE
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“A portrait of Lady Emille Estellion, painted in her sixteenth year, hangs in a closed gallery on the second floor of the Estellion estate in Northtown. A sentinel stands watch at the door at all hours.” — Camilla Rosen, Queen of Canaan
