Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.
Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world? - Margo Lanagan
Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?
- Margo Lanagan
Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. H… - Margo Lanagan
Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. H…
I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gle… - Margo Lanagan
I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gle…
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people. - Margo Lanagan
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.
There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town … - Margo Lanagan
There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town …
How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them. - Margo Lanagan
How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.
You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks… - Margo Lanagan
You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks…
It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for th… - Margo Lanagan
It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for th…
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the… - Margo Lanagan
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the…
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