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“And whatever you do, don’t close your eyes.'

'What happens if I close my eyes?'

'You miss the fun.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Death is boring. Life is much more fun. Things happen in life all the time. Unexpected things. Things you couldn’t possibly expect because they’re so very… unexpected.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“Morrigan's night held only one possibility. Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, when the clock struck midnight she would die-the eleven short years of her doomed life complete; her curse finally fulfilled.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow