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"Too much. I've certainly heard words like that before. Too loud. Too strong. Too everything. I know I'm too much, but I don't know how to be less."

"Maybe there's a beauty in the scars," she said. "Because they're a reminder of what's been faced, and what's been survived."

"What's a theocracy if not occasionally profitable?"
"Corrupt."
"Isn't that what I said?"

"Nightmares hunt like beats of prey, vanquished in the light of day."

Taking this book throughout 2022 with me, as part of my new morning routine.

Taking this book throughout 2022 with me, as part of my new morning routine.

"Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable."

"But it's really faith that monsters live on, isn't it?"

"The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high; purpose, maybe, or goals."

"The place makes it news as much as what happened in the place, sonny. That's why there are bigger headlines when an earthquake kills twelve people in Los Angeles than there are when one kills three thousand people in some heathen country in the Mideast."

"there are moments in time when things can change, when forces balance and it's possible for individual people to remake the world."

"gods don't exactly choose their saints - it's a question of potential, like lightening striking the tallest point in the landscape."

"There was an echo here in Derry, a deadly echo, and all they could hope for was that the echo could be changed enough in their favour to allow them to escape with their lives."

"Death is such a beautiful moment, I don't know why you all fight it so hard... You celebrate birth and mourn death. It's all backwards."

"When she wakes, Bea can't remember a single image but is left with an echo of the feelings evoked: courage, certainty, self-possession. She has ripped off her feminine casing. She's free to be fierce, to rage, to act exactly as she wants."

Leo reached up to press his palm to the glass, as if trying to reach into the sky and set himself among the stars. On these nights Leo felt drawn to them more strongly than anything he'd ever felt before. He couldn't understand it, though he tried. But, stranger than his attraction to the night sky, was his sense that this attraction was reciprocated, that the stars longed for him as deeply as he longed for the stars

"too many white faces tended to mean too many small minds."

"Vali grins.
'Stop grinning.'
Vali doesn't.
Bea sighs. 'You look like a fat hamster.'"

Soft boi and hard exterior girl is my favourite combo.

"You're a Grimm unparalleled, the most powerful I've ever seen. You could be phenomenal, invincible, if only you knew."

"her comic-book world is an infinite improvement on reality: the good triumph, the bad perish, and if chaos is reaped along the way, in the end everything is always set right with the world. Justice prevails."

"when a man writes, he thinks harder... or maybe just more specifically. And one of the things I've spent time writing and thinking about is the nature of It. It changes; we know that. I think It also manipulates, and leaves Its mark on people just by the nature of what It is"

"Maybe in the end its the voice that tells the stories more than the stories that matters."

"We lie best when we lie to ourselves."

"If you're done with Tom, you ought to be done with the lies as well... The dark glasses, the blouses with high necks and long sleeves... maybe you fooled a buyer or two. But you can't fool your friends, Bev. Not the people who love you."

I had forgotten that this storyline featured and just how heartbreaking it was to read about.

"My daddy used to tell me that God lived rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations and that's why He made so many of them."

"Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too."

"magic is a peculiar thing, as are the things it touches"

"Sometimes things that seem dangerous are just misunderstood."

"Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. It simply was"

"What's feeding in Derry? What's feeding on Derry?"