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Throwing it back, this spooky reading season!

"Because when you feed another to the maw you feed a part of yourself also, and soon enough, there's nothing left."

"Don't fuck with librarians, young lady. We have the power of words"

"I am a daughter of the dark between the stars," she replied. "I am the thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. I am the vengeance of every orphaned daughter, every murdered mother, every bastard son." Mia leaned forward and looked the man in the eye. "I am the war you cannot win."

"My love I left, my heart I left, with a promise to return."

Why does Jay Kristoff want to hurt us so much!?

“Blessings and curses fall on the wicked and the just alike. Fair is a fairy tale. Nothing's claimed by those who don't want it, and nothing's kept by those who won't fight for it. So let's fight. Fuck the gods. Fuck it all. Let's take the world by the throat and make it give us what we want.”

"You kiss like you kill, Mia Corvere."
"And how's that?"
"With finesse."

"people were the puzzle she'd never managed to solve. She'd always been better at cutting things apart than putting them back together,"

"Nevernight," he muttered. "Stupid name for a book."

I didn't think I was ready for this series to end, giving the info given in the Nevernight prologue, but rereading Godsgrave and the twist on the final line has me immediately needing answers! I guess I know what my plans are, for the rest of the day.

"Conquer your fear... and you can conquer the world."

"Our scars are just gifts from our enemies... Reminding us they weren't good enough to kill us."

"...as the hope children breathed and adults mourned withered and fell away, floating like ashes in the wind.
'Never flinch. Never fear. And never, ever forget.'"

"those who stand for nothing die for the same. And if you stand only for yourself, you fall alone."

"Thief.
Liar.
Killer.
Traitor."

Okay, I ship it!

"Death is the only promise we all keep. This life we live... there is room in it for love, Mia. But a love like Autumn leaves. Beautiful one turn. A bonfire the next. Only ashes the remainder."

"The sand is no place for brawlers... It is a chequered board. And on it, we play the greatest game of all."

"The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand."

Me: I'm going to complete all of my currently reading books and go into next month with a new slate.

Also me: I'm going to reject everything else in my life because I need more Mia Corvere in it STAT

"Glad to be the thorn in your side, bitch..."

Mia Corvere is a fucking MOOD

"Hear me, Mother. This flesh your feast. This blood your wine. This life, this end, my gift to you. Hold him close."

"Deserve has no truck with death. She takes us all. Wicked and just alike."

"...to master the darkness without, first you must face the darkness within..."

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”

"In the face of all this callousness, she needed to hold on to the things that mattered? And looking at this strange boy, matted hair strung over haunted eyes, Mia realised he did matter."

He mattered to her."

"Killers one, killers all. And each death we bring is a prayer. An offering to Our Lady of Blessed Murder. Death as a mercy. Death as a warning. Death as an end unto itself. All of these, ours to know and gift unto the world. The wolf does not pity the lamb. The storm begs no forgiveness of the drowned."

"Secrets are like lovers, my dear. It's only after you've acquired a few that you can make accurate comparisons."

"This place gives much. But it takes much more. They may make her beautiful on the outside, but inside, they aim to make a horror."

"'You've heard the saying the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach?'

'I always wondered about that,' Tric frowned. 'Ribcage seems quicker to me.'