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    A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

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    Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

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    I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

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    I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

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    If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

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    Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

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    Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

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    Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.

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    You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

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    Creoles tend to express variations in time by having a string of helping verbs rather than by having complicated word formation rules. In other words, they are more like English in this respect than like a language such as Italian: English: I thought she might have been sleeping. Italian: Pensavo che dormisse. The idea of potential (in the English "might"), completed or whole action (in the English "have"), and stretched-out activity (in the English "been") that go with "sleeping" are all expressed in the ending on the Italian verb dormisse. (Dorm is the root for "sleep"; isse is the ending that carries all the meaning about the time frame.)

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    Every story began with the same claim: "If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.

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    Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).