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as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower … both strange and familiar.”
This is also why I annotate
calves’ blood pudding
🙀
Peasants were not allowed to keep dogs, that was a privilege reserved for princes, but a goose was a reliable guard, too — and just as alarming.
Lol geese are mean as hell😂
I am lord of life and death in this world, I, Fenoglio, no one else!”
Yikes, what a god complex.
“So? He went away, that’s all.” Mortola’s voice was shrill. “And then he didn’t come back, but that means nothing. My son was always traveling on business. The Adderhead sometimes sent him a messenger in the middle of the night when he needed his services, and then he’d be gone the next morning. But he’s back now. Back and waiting for me to bring his murderer to his fortress in the Wayless Wood.”
Deny deny deny 😑
“Not bad? It’s a masterpiece, you maggot-colored, ink-smudging pen-holder!”
Creative 😅😂
“It’s bad luck to summon the dead.”
What's dead should stay dead, damnit!!
“No one,” said Orpheus softly, rising slowly and menacingly from her chair, “no one can tell me anything about the art of reading. Certainly not a little girl!”
Except she can do what you can't...
Sometimes I can be a truly benevolent person, thought Fenoglio.
God complex is showing again...
and whispered to the fire, insistently, almost lovingly, to keep it from doing what it wanted and becoming an enemy instead of a friend.
Appease the flames 🌋
It takes a fair amount of megalomania to give yourself a name like that, and megalomania is an interesting character trait.”
😂😂😂
