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"How quickly what little grasp they have on the land vanishes, as though beyond the boundary there were never people there at all and she has wandered full into the land of trolls."

""Why does she not just say she wishes to stay? This isn't how they speak here, if they speak at all, this to-and-fro like currents whirled away and together again by a quick wind."

“’Are you alright?’ he asked.
‘Yes, I’m surviving.’”

THIS HURTS!

“children were like plants - they had to have sunshine if they were to grow.”

100 days! This makes me feel so unutterably sad!

“Sure, somebody could clean all the dark secret places where creeping horrors lived, and they could spray all over with insect repellent so nothing sinister was left that was small enough to step on. But how to step on the grandmother, the grandfather? How to turn an attic room into a paradise where flowers bloomed, and not just another prison like the one below?”

"She doesn't have the words for the confusion of it: the way her body has become something unhomed, how she has already learnt the way to wield silence like a weapon."

Struggling to breathe with all this tension!

“A hundred hundred heartbeats.”

I cry!

Petition for Garth Nix and Jay Kristoff to pen a novel together, featuring Moggett and Mr Kindly as the only characters!

“Fear and realisation of ignorance were strong medicines against stupid pride.”

“Does the walker chose the path, or the path the walker?”

That last line gives me chills!!!

I get a fear of rereading a favourite and finding the magic having lessened over time. I am even more in awe with this book than during my first reading! There are so many facets of this that are answered later in the series that, with knowledge of them, makes this feel like reading an entirely different book.

“Something inside him felt like the night, hungry and wanting and black.”

"Their words are like links they can hang facts upon, tightening with each telling. Many of them seem past caring what is true or not, only desperate for some reason, some order to the rearrangement of their lives, even if it is brought about by a lie."

"The cold comes in like a finger snap. That's how they'll speak in the months and years after, when it stops being only an ache behind their eyes and a crushing at the base of their throats. When it finally fits into stories. Even then, it doesn't tell how it actually was. There are ways words fall down: they give shape too easily, carelessly. And there was no grace, no ease to what Maren saw."

“Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who’d proven themselves worthy.”

“Blue Sargant had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.”

Why am I already screaming!?

I was hoping to get this completed before the month was out but I got intimidated by the size and neglected it. At least I know what my first completed read of February will be, though, as I'm now HOOKED on this!

This is SO good but SO dense!

"Peace was like any high. It couldn't last. It was an illusion. Something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever. Only two things kept you safe: money and power."

"This is a night of compacts, between the seers and the seen, a night when people enter false bargains willingly, hoping to be duped and to dupe in turn for the pleasure of feeling brave or sexy or beautiful or simply wanted"

"You couldn't keep sidling up to death and dipping your toe in. Eventually it grabbed your ankle and tried to pull you under."

"this was the moment he'd been waiting for: the chance to show someone else wonder, to watch them realise that they had not been lied to, that the world they'd been promised as children was not something that had to be abandoned, that there really was something lurking in the wood, beneath the stairs, between the stars, that everything was full of mystery."

"I can't settle. It's as if someone is just ahead of me, leaving every room just before I open the door. No matter where I go I have the same sensation, as if the warmth of someone else's breath still hangs in the air."

"somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between."

"May your darkness be quiet and the light come sooner than you need"

The start of part two. I'm loving the concepts of this!

"Kill with fire and you will perish in fire. Burn in hatred and you will burn."