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Yo this book is bonkers

“Every man who holds a sword in his hand, holds murder in his heart”

Omg this is so unserious

“When all three of your children stand against you, perhaps the time has come for self-reflection”

“My house. My chair. My woman”

If I didn’t already have anxiety I have it now

Back on my fantasy bullshit

“Dragons do not answer to the whims of men.”

“There are two grave stones at sundial, one each for falcon and Mia. But many things lie underground here, unmarked. The whole place is a graveyard.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and picture it like a layer cake or a medieval painting of hell. All the hidden things, lives pressing down on one another. The weight of years, and the heat of guilt forging them diamond-hard.”

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”

Ok I’ll bite

This was beautiful and atmospheric
And just so well written

4.5/5

old habits never die. They just go dormant.

The dedication

“To the man who inspired this story- you’re damn right I wrote A book about you”


Obsessed

“We don't know the terrible things that are coming our way.” She said as she looked down at the cut crystal, her eyes teary.

“We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.”

“I know you think I’m a crazy drunk who doesn’t know what he’s talking about” my father said . His shoulders were hunched and he looked defeated, old.

“That’s not what I think at all.” I said. But deep down it really was. And it was what I had always thought.

The truth was a corkscrew in my heart

“They will teach you things I cannot,” Titi said as she put me on the road to the seminary so many years ago.

“Besides,” she added, a sly twinkle in her eye as she patted my chest, aware her palm rested directly over the darkness that lived curled around my heart, “won't you be well hidden there?”

“You can only do three things with danger: run away from it, fight it, or make friends with it. I don’t know which one to do.”

“We all seek the dream of beauty even if we know, fundamentally, it is only the facade for the decaying and the dark “

This is Gonna be sick but I’m loving it

Will Dustin survive this book?

Grady Hendricks loves to make me uncomfortable