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I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

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Fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

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Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

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I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

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I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

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Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

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And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

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We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

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