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“The answer, as with so many things those piteous little creatures dredged from the mud, was poison.”
― Brooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing

“The late novelist and critic John Updike once noted that the trouble with writing book reviews is that it is “almost impossible to…avoid the tone of being wonderfully right.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, then tears, then song: the main three things a human can burst into. The fourth being flames. Also the song was the British National Anthem and I don't know why.”
― James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

“That was the truth of magic—blood and guts and semen and spit, organs kept in jars, maps for hunting humans, the skulls of unborn infants. The problem wasn’t books and fairy tales, just that they told half the story, offering up the illusion of a world where only the villains paid in blood, the ogre stepmothers, the wicked stepsisters, where magic was just and without sacrifice.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent