The shimmer of it took after the moon itself, hard and without poetry, stuck in the orbit of the thoughtless earth like a California pearl.
Catherynne M Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
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“How come they get to blow off their chores while we’re stuck in here?” she said. Her twin, Grace, joined her at the window. “They just thought of it first, I guess.”
Charles de Lint, Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale
