Вольные Мальцы

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Игрушки в доме должны были быть прочными, чтобы выжить без потерь и пройти через поколения, и далеко не всем это удавалось. В последний раз, когда Тиффани попыталась устроить вечеринку, гостями были тряпичная кукла без головы, два деревянных солдатика и три четверти плюшевого мишки.

Сказки не хотели, чтобы вы думали, - они хотели, чтобы вы верили тому, что вам сказали... .

Don’t wish, Miss Tick had said. Do things.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

There was a gibbous moon in the sky. Tiffany knew it was gibbous because she’d read in the Almanack that ‘gibbous’ meant what the moon looked like when it was just a bit fatter than half full, and so she made a point of paying attention to it around those times just so that she could say to herself: ‘Ah, I see the moon’s very gibbous tonight…’
It’s possible that this tells you more about Tiffany than she would want you to know.

At some point Ratbag the cat pushed open the door and jumped onto the bed. He was big to start with, but Ratbag flowed. He was so fat that, on any reasonably flat surface, he gradually spread out in a great puddle of fur. He hated Tiffany, but would never let personal feelings get in the way of a warm place to sleep.

‘Good. Now… if you trust in yourself…’
‘Yes?’
‘…and believe in your dreams…’
‘Yes?’
‘…and follow your star…’ Miss Tick went on.
‘Yes?’
‘…you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.’

A unicorn is nothing more than a big horse that comes to a point, anyway.

Есть много границ, больше, чем знают люди. Между жизнью и смертью, этим миром и тем, днем и ночью, правдой и неправдой… Им нужен пригляд. Мы смотрим за ними, мы охраняем все на свете. И мы никогда не просим награды. Это важно.