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"The universe spoke a language, if you were paying close enough attention. Many languages, even. Stars, leaves, flowers, cards, dirt - the universe was constantly spelling things out, though people rarely listened."

"To believe in destiny, one must also believe in succession. If the world is ruled by predetermination, then it must also be ordered, measured, paced out from first to last:
If this, then this."

"She paused for a moment in the stillness, in the paralysis between motions, in the cliff edge of what was and what could be, and for a pulse or two of time she simply luxuriated there, feeling the warmth of his breath against her lips and thinking, foolishly, that she could be satisfied with the magnificence of waiting"

Witches with Yelp reviews and sinister furniture stores? This first chapter was so wierd and I loved it!

I've just tested positive for covid and the first book I started reading after it is a pandemic book... Maybe I'll need some fantasy alongside if this one gets too much.

What an epic first line!

"The deceased are beyond beautiful, but only because they are so emptied of worry. Everything tense or unlikable is gone. Like a shopping centre in the middle of the night, they have lost all chaos and clatter."

"He missed Libby Rhodes like he would miss having electricity. Or his left hand. He did not know how to function without her...

Nico missed Gideon like he would miss his conscience, or his ability to slip a punch. He did not know who he was when Gideon was gone."

"I was nothing but shadow. I existed in the afterthought of resplendence."

"You can know a person in totality - as they are revealed in the angle of light hitting your eyes, in a poem of photons and particles... your mind makes a map of them and even barefoot and blindfolded, this terrain becomes a truth.
And it is a truth.
But only at an angle."

"Every fairy tale has blood flecked on its muzzle. Sometimes its licked up in the second before the story begins - a queen slowly bleeding out onto her birthing bed, a plague having laid waste to a land before 'Once upon a time' slouches from the dark. But every so often, one can trace the thick flow of blood as it seeps from the pages."

"All marriages possess their own tongue.

It is a lexicon discovered in that space between clipped sentences. its poetry can be heard in the rustle of blankets as you shift to curl around the other in silent apology."

"They go by different names depending on the myth - troths and geis, vows and tynged - there is one thing they all share: they must be broken for there to be a story. Only a shattered promise yields a rich, glittering yolk of a tale."

"Besides, some girls aren't meant to be found. Memories make their own houses, even more magical than this one, and that's where girls from the past live... In those houses, dust cant touch them. Time never colors their hair silver. Wrinkles never crease their face. They can stay untouched and perfect forever."

"For the first moment in years, I knew the lost peace of childhood, when autumns were endless and secrets unheard of, and even time revealed its coveted workings. I remembered how I once knew how to tame and lure whole hours to my side where they might doze like sleeping beasts until I wished for them to pass.

Safety was its own spell, and whatever Indigo had cast on me, I loved her for it."

"Some individuals are like portals, the knowing of them makes the world a far vaster place."

"every act of violence bears a cost. Some things leave a physical scar. A cut. A burn. Those can fade with time. But some acts, like taking a life — those leave a mark on your soul.
And those never disappear."

"I am tightly held like a precious object.
Which, it will soon be revealed, I am."

"Can a monster be beautiful if it is still terrifying? Perhaps it depends on how you experience fear and judge beauty."

"People always craved power - that was a constant of humanity, a truer rule than any law of physics. If they weren't given power, they took it. And however lofty and moral their foundational creed, people historically chose to give it away."

"I am not divine. What I am is the kind of power that could rewrite cultures, restructure societies. This is what it means to be a god: to enforce a new era if change. Not to create empires, but to shape a new generation... The old gods are dead, no one believes in them, so what is left now but a broken, faithless world? Give me seven days and I'll make light, I'll make the heavens and the earth."

"we all want to believe we are fundamental in some way. We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason. We are reasonable creatures and so everything must have its place, its purpose - but we are also egotistical creatures, and so we give ourselves reasons that don't exist."

As much as I am absolutely loving this, I thought Medusa would have taken more of a central focus and been assigned more page time.

"You're at the furthest point you can sail to, where the ocean kisses the setting sun. It is beautiful and sad at once: it holds none of the promise that dawn brings, if you journey the opposite way. It is a place where things come to an end. Mortals don't belong here: it makes them melancholy."

The theories surrounding magic and why the six were chosen for the society of Alexandrians is blowing my brain!

"Vengeful and cruel, always blaming women for what men do to them."

"no mortals were dying today because the Fates had walked away from their spindle and their wool weights and their sharp knife. They were here on the battlefield"

"It was, perhaps, his tremendous self-regard, which meant that even though he was so much more powerful than her, and so intent on exploiting the disparity between them, she felt rather sorry for him. Imagine being a god, she thought, and still needing to tell everyone how impressive you were."

"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved. "

"You can be nothing
& still breathing. Believe me."