Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

by Holly Black

I ate the mythology & dreamt. —YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, “BLACKBERRIES”

“Horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir the Hell within him, for within him Hell he brings, and round about him, nor from Hell one step more than from himself can fly by change of place,”

Nor from hell one step more than from himself can fly.

A word is dead When it is said Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. —EMILY DICKINSON, “VI. A WORD.”

“One day, someone is going to cut that clever tongue of yours right out of your head,”