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Edith Pattou

Edith Pattou is the author of several fantasy novels, including East, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. She is a graduate of the Francis W. Parker School, Scripps College (B.A., English), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., English) and UCLA (M.L.I.S.). She is married to Charles Emery, a professor of psychology at The Ohio State University. They have one child, a daughter.

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“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”
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“It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.”
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“It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.”
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“A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it”
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“That indeed would be a great accolade," Monodonock stuttered, his hands frenziedly plucking at his spikey hair, "but the more I think on it, I believe I should miss my little home in the Blue Stack Mountains too much. And indeed, it is an important posting; you never know when the gabha might start stiring up trouble again...”
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“And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.”
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“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”
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“East of the sun and west of the moon.”
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