Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

by Heather Fawcett

The forest slowly folded me into itself.

I like this

I appreciate blunt people. It takes the guesswork out of conversations, and as someone who is terrible at guesswork and always putting her feet wrong, this is invaluable.

Unwelcome as his presence was, Bambleby was a piece of Cambridge, and I felt more myself with him there.

His eyes become very green when he laughs; you wonder if the colour will spill from them like sap.

Ugh I love these descriptions

“You know, Em, you could make life so much easier for yourself if you tried to be liked once in a while.” “I do try,” I said, overloud. His words stung more than he could have guessed.

:(

the stars a thick glittering above me like a spill of treasure.

To peel back the carpeting of the world and tumble into the stars.”

“If you wish it,” he said from between his fingers, “I will help you.”

“I wish it,” I said. “Shall I say it three times?” “I suppose you might as well, you infernal creature.” I did.

I have seen Wendell angry before, but this was something that seemed to surge through him like lightning, threatening to burn everything in its path.

😌😌 I love a protective man

because I was mostly just watching you, observing the way your mind clicks and whirrs like some fantastical clock.

🥺🥺🥺

I suppose that’s partly why— Ah, but you really would kill me if I desecrated your scientific vessel with the end of that sentence.

Finish it I dare you

You screamed, which I appreciated, and Shadow went berserk, also kind but not much more helpful,

This cracked me up

I hope you don’t mind that I didn’t dislodge you when you slumped against me in sleep, your head coming to rest on my shoulder. No, silly me; of course you’ll mind, but perhaps I don’t care.

He’s somehow caught between completely nonchalant and horrendously down bad

He took my hand, and then, before I knew what he was doing, lifted it to his mouth. I felt the briefest brush of his lips against my skin, and then he had released me and was back to exclaiming over his gifts.

Cuuuttteeee

“Why would I do that? I prefer your company, Em.” He said it as if it were obvious.

“It doesn’t matter where you are,” he said simply.

Poe 🥺