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41 " You might as well hurl cherries at a mountain. "
― Frances Hardinge , A Skinful of Shadows
42 " Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts. "
43 " You were a mistake, girl,' she said simply, 'but a mistake honestly meant. "
44 " Makepeace felt something in her chest wrench, and wondered if it was her heart breaking. She waited to see how that would feel. Perhaps hearts broke like eggs, and spilt, and stopped working. But all she felt was numb. 'Perhaps my heart already broke and never grew back. "
45 " You’re home. "
46 " Tell them that the Fellmottes are all witches, and fly around the countryside in eggshells and mortars. "