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The ratio of rotting corpses per page is so high!

"Fear had many shades: there was the blazing kind you felt when an enemy charged at you; the chilly kind you felt traversing a dark alley; the harrowing kind when you were trapped in a cave during a blizzard, hoping someone heard your screams... the worst had always been the pernicious and silent kind, like when you suddenly realised your little sister hadn't left her room all day and how eerily quiet the house was."

"Life is an arena, and even if you're the champion, one second of weakness is all it takes for the lions to pounce."

"we all draw a line between the good we could do and the good we actually do."

I'm only 35 pages into this book but it has given me something new to think about on every page. Of all the information, the most mind-blowing for me is that monkeys have the ability to lie and will tell another monkey that a lion is present just to steal their bananas.

"The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it. Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals."

The Mary Shelley Club's antics are messed up, but that only makes them more intriguing to read about.

"Anxiety and exhilaration are two sides of the same coin; both made you lose your breath, made your skin vibrate so strong your teeth could chatter. But on one side it felt like torture, and on the other it was elation. Enlightenment. Nirvana. It was the crystal-clear sense of the whistling trees all around you and the dark green grass tickling your cheeks."

"We can work with fear, like a sculptor works with clay. It's art... Art is all about drawing an emotion out of someone, right? A beautiful painting could make you feel wonder. A song could make you cry. A movie could make you laugh. Evoking an explosive, immediate reaction out of someone? There's nothing more visceral than being scared."

More early drama and angst than I was anticipating, but I'm super enjoying this one, so far.

Amarantha's trials might be no fun for Feyre but they sure are interesting to read about.

I loved seeing this side of Nesta and Elain in this chapter.

Enter, Rhysand!

The Wild Mouse Hunt by Evergreen Lee - 2/5⭐

Tomb for Two by Jan Rivers - 2/5⭐

No Iron in Eden by Maria Schrater - 4.5/5⭐

The Unquiet Night by Claire Davon - 3/5⭐

Cycle of the White Hart by Hailey Piper - 3.75/5⭐

Returning to this book after knowing all the information from books two and three in the series, makes me view it in a whole new light.

"We need hope as much as we need bread and meat... We need hope, or else we cannot endure,"

Let the rereads, in preparation for A Court of Silver Flames, commence!

The Hope of Elantris - 3.75/5 stars

The Emperor's Soul - 5/5 stars

"Our hunger for power outweighs our conscience."

"In her business, there were many who laughed at honest men, calling them easy pickings. That was a fallacy. Being honest did not make one naive. A dishonest fool and an honest fool were equally easy to scam, you just went about it in different ways.
However, a man who was honest and clever was always, always more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever."

"Maybe magic is just the space between what you have and what you need"

“Mothers are supposed to be weak, weepy creatures, women who give birth to their children and drift peacefully into death, but the Mother is none of those things. She’s the brave one, the ruthless one, the witch who traded the birthing-chamber for the battlefield, the kitchen for the knife. She is bloody Boadicea and heartless Hera, the mother who became a monster.”

"I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared."

"Eve.

A sinful name, a shocking name. A name that broke the first world and walked into the new one, unbound and unbowed."

"she should have known no man ever loved a woman's strength - they only love the place where it runs out. The love a strong will finally broken, a straight spine bent."