The Starless Sea

by Erin Morgenstern

He follows Dorian into the park, looping around deserted paths and leaving tracks in unblemished snow. Between the trees he can make out something that looks like a castle. It is easy to forget that they are in the middle of the city.

Lol I love when books all have the same landmarks. This is like in Valiant, but with less fairies and drugs.

“It’s basically an Earl Grey tea with soy milk and honey and vanilla,”

hold on that sounds good-

King is a…phenomenon. The future crashing into the present like a wave. Its wings beat in the spaces between choices and before decisions, heralding change…change of the long-awaited sort, the change foretold by prophecies and warned of by omens, written in the stars.” “Who are the stars?” It is a question Zachary has thought before but not yet asked aloud, though he remains confused as to whether the Owl King is a person or a bird or a type of weather. Simon stares at him and blinks. “We are the stars,” he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. “We are all stardust and stories.”

oh it's the line

a sleeping borzoi who is introduced as Horatio.

OH SLAY I LOVE THIS WOMAN

I feel lemony and insane.

me