“I do like the world quite a lot.”
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Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
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Shannon Hale
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“I do like the world quite a lot.”
“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”
“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.”
“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”