Status Updates From Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

Everything from this part forward was such beautiful imagery but also so spooky. Amazing writing and scene building.

'It was a beautiful building, Touchstone reminisced.
'You could see out over the Saere. It had high ceilings, and a clever system of vents and shafts to catch the light and the sea breeze. There was always music and dancing somewhere in the Palace, and Midsummer dinner on the garden roof, with a thousand scented candles burning..”

‘It’s sounds like a terribly brilliant plan to me,’ muttered Mogget. ‘The genius of simplicity…’
I love this quote because I feel it’s hard to portray sarcasm through writing but I can read the tone in this so easily. Then her response was: ‘Can you think of anything else?’ snapped Sabriel.

I remember reading Lirael and absolutely loving it years ago (like, middle school?), but I don’t believe I ever got to Sabriel. This is already such a delight.

“'Somewhere along the path of his studies, he'd swapped real Life for power and, like all the Dead, he needed to take Life all the time to stay out of Death. But the Charter made it very difficult for him to do that, anywhere in the Kingdom. So he decided to break the Charter. He could have confined himself to breaking a few of the lesser stones, somewhere far away, but that would only give him a tiny area…”

Loving this