Kelly Link - Pretty Monsters (2003)

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Nobody tells her to shut up. It would be pointless. Amy has a large heart and an even larger mouth. When it rains, Amy rescues worms off the sidewalk. When you get tired of having a secret, you tell Amy. Understand: Amy isn't that much stupider than anyone else in the story. It's just that she thinks out loud.

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A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

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Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

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No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

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You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

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Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

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