Who am I? The shell-selling Lace girl, the attendant of Lady Arilou, Mother Govrie’s other daughter, the thing of dust, the victim, the revenger, the diplomat, the crowd-witch, the killer, the rescuer, the pirate?I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

~ Frances Hardinge

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People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.

~ Frances Hardinge

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