The Missing of Clairdelune (The Mirror Visitor, #2)

by Christelle Dabos

Decadents, bastards, foreigners, vermin, degenerates: by what right did this newspaper director speak of human beings with such disdain?

“When I told you that you had a preternatural predisposition to disasters, it wasn’t an invitation to prove me right.”

“Try your dears,” the liftboy repeated. “I mean, dry your tears. What’s done is done and what must be done will be done.”

Marriage is more than the celebration of family, it is at once its foundation and its crown, it is the family itself, in essence and in perpetuity!”