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Part two begins and I am super enjoying this, so far.

“Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry”

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”

"Maybe that's one of the ways you recognize really lonely people... They can always think of something neat to do on rainy days."

"Luis thinks the dimming or leaking away of who you are is the worst thing that can happen to anyone. He is right, but there are many worst things that can happen to a person."

"Everyone has the worst inside of them but some of us try to make something beautiful out of it anyway."

"Time is too heavy. It really does have weight you can feel but you can't measure."

This was totally the wrong choice of bedtime reading. The concept is so chilling and this has so many real-world equivalents for me to want to do anything but fly through these pages all night long!

"This is not a fairy tale. Certainly it is not one that has been sanitized, homogenized, or Disneyfied, bloodless in every possible sense of the word, beasts and human monsters defanged and claws clipped, the children safe and the children saved, the hard truths harvested from hard lives if not lost then obscured, and purposefully so."

"they made their supper of beef, beer, and pickled onions, pleasantly spiced by anxiety and speculation."

"The livid silver tongues of the early stars leaped between the shapes of chimney-pots, backwards and forwards, like idiot children dancing to a forgotten tune."

"he was forced to open the game with, 'Well?' (A gambit which Flora, with a sinking heart, recognized as one used by intellectuals who had decided to fall in love with you.)"

This book oscillates been the dull and the quite funny. I'm not sure I can wholly love it, but I am enjoying the satirical wit.

"the anger is nebulous, directionless; she hates the world, not anyone in particular. That's a lot to hate."

"She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while you were eating an apple."

"Child, child, if you come to this doomed house, what is to save you?"

"Human beings are small and insignificant in a big, scary universe, and in a horror story... we have to face that fact. But no matter... what the audience has to confront or endure, there's always a happy ending. When the credits roll, or the reader closes the book... their lives will go on. Because they faced the dark, the sun will shine a little brighter tomorrow, and the real-life monsters won't seem so bad."

"There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachment altogether, than lose one more thing."

"He inhales suddenly, sharply, as if he is gasping for air. He's holding back a sob, but the movement looks the same.

Schaffa knows how it feels to drown."

“They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it.”

"The world is full of fools, Niclays. And they are never more foolish than when they smell eternal life."

"Fair roses have grown from twisted seeds."

All these revelations are giving me LIFE.

"The reek of brimstone blew through the courtyard, and the snow thawed around her boots.
She knew the cadence of wings when she heard it. Thunderous as the footsteps of a giant.
With every whump, the ground quaked. A drumbeat of impending grief.
The High Western tore through the night."

Truly the most unique dragon fantasy creation!

Castle Waking by Jane Yolen - 3.5/5 stars

The Girl From the Hell by Margo Lanagan - 3/5 stars

Again by Tim Lebbon - 4.5/5 stars

The Merrie Dancers by Alison Littlewood - 4/5 stars

Hated by Christopher Fowler - 4/5 stars

Haza and Ghani by Lilith Saintcrow - 3/5 stars