The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)

by Libba Bray

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LMFAO!

TRIFFLIN’!

Evie’s soooo cute!

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“I swear

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“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

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The snake devouring its tail, no beginning and no end. It exists across time and cultures. We see it in the Norse Jormungandr, the Greek Ouroboros, Gnosticism, the Ashanti, the Egyptian. It represents cycles, the idea that the universe is neither created nor destroyed but returns infinitely, to be played out again and again.”

Intriguing.

The Aghori of India eat the flesh of the dead in the belief that it confers supernatural powers, whereas members of the Algonquin tribe believe that anyone who eats human flesh will become a demonic spirit called the Wendigo.”

Cross check.

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🧐... Is this what the offerings are for?

Annnnnd here’s the fuck up. Pride....

Evie, Henry ( & the boys -Memphis? )

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The “1st” diviner - Liberty Anne’s Brother (Cornelius), built Uncle Will’s museum.

Maaaaan.

“Indeed I do. But I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s this foreign element coming in, you know—it’s polluting our white race and way of life. The Jewish anarchists. The Bolsheviks. The Italians and Irish Catholics. The Negroes, with their music and dancing. They don’t hold to our same moral code. They don’t share our American values. We believe in one hundred percent Americanism.”

“The Brethren was formed by a young preacher named John Joseph Algoode. Reverend Algoode was tending sheep—very biblical, that—when he saw a great fire in the sky. It was Solomon’s Comet coming through the northern hemisphere.”

The reverend, who’s in fact - a demon, is the killer? 🧐

FAREAL!

This is what the spirit of John’s doing?

“Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions.

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“Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.”

If the Pentacle Killer is truly following the rituals in this Book of the Brethren in order to raise some anti-Christ and bring about Armageddon, why start with the fifth offering?

I wonder if he’d began before his original death? 🧐

What if evil exists? What if it has always existed and will continue to exist, an eternal battle between good and evil, always and forever?”

I dig Memphis ☺️

Does this implicate that the 7th offering will be at the Solomon temple upstate? Where the KKK worship? Will the offerings be the congregation?

If she wanted to, she could press any of these things between her palms, concentrate, and draw out Will’s secrets. Jericho’s, too. And Sam’s and Mabel’s and Theta’s. The list was endless. But it was a form of stealing, knowing people’s secrets without their consent. And she wasn’t sure she wanted the responsibility of knowing.

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Those men had never really seen Theta. But Memphis’s kiss was nothing like theirs. It was passionate, yet tender. A mutual agreement of desire. It was a kiss shared. He was kissing her. He was with her.

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There’s nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he’s right,”

“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear,”

Just a bunch of chess pieces moved about by unseen hands in a universe bored with itself.

“Without revolution, there can be no reform.