Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces__he face they get when they__e children, the face they own when they__e grown, and the face they__e earned when they__e old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
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Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces__he face they get when they__e children, the face they own when they__e grown, and the face they__e earned when they__e old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
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