Shannon Hale - Book of a Thousand Days (2007)

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I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

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There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

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Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

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

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They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

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You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

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Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

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