Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

There are no words in their common language to explain why he’s doing these things, and that’s the final nail in the coffin they’ve been building between them, to bury love with honors.)

If they had to lose themselves to walk this road, would it ever really be able to lead them home?

They were always going to wind up here, no matter how far they traveled, no matter how fast they ran.

This is his parents’ house. For the first time in his life, he’s a guest here. You really can’t go home again. Not all the way. No matter how hard you try.

drowned girls are very possible, and the Impossible City only welcomes impossible things. Girls like me happen too often to ever make it home…”

You deserve the chance to be something more than everything.”