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“His head came up, his eyes full of agony, and he moved away.

She saw what it cost him, saw the tremor in his hands as he lowered them to his sides.

Felt the space between them like the space of a wound torn into flesh.”

New audio book

Sequel to the night swim one of my favorite mysteries of all time so *fingers crossed*

“It wasn't that she was walking away from the boy she loved with a thousand words unsaid between them...

It was that she was terrified a rift had opened between her and the person who had been her best friend as long as she could remember.”

“And in that moment Cristina yearned toward him more than she ever had, for she knew that feeling, to be so hollowed out by loss that you felt as if the wind could blow through you”

“That is very human,” he said. “To be jealous of a body but not a heart.”

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“It perplexed him, how someone about to play God could pray to him”

In V.E.Schwab we trust

These stories are darkkkkkk (a compliment)

6 stories in - and all if them have been at least 4 stars 👀

Current audio - Riley almost never fails me 🤞

Book club book

“You’re walking the edge of a razor blade, Julian, with everything you hide. Believe me, I’ve walked that razor blade half my life.

You get so used to it sometimes you forget that you’re bleeding.”

“There was a time when shadow hunters would’ve investigated the killing of our kind because they believed in their mandate to protect more than they believed in their hate.”

“There was a time when shadow hunters would’ve investigated the killing of our kind because they believed in their mandate to protect more than they believed in their hate.”

My final shadow hunters trilogy

“Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption”

“One king bankrupt of coin, one bankrupt of common sense “

Name a better magic system I’ll wait

Dustin stop waiting YEARS to read sequels challenge

“Joanie held it all back behind a monster-sized dam; it was easy to see her biting back her grief.

But something she didn’t- or couldn’t- hold back was the anger. It danced in her eyes like a forest fire. “

New audio and already loving the writing

Snakes and spiders in the first 30 pages oh dear

“Some fears were justified of course, but until now she had not believed that some fears were larger than comprehension, apocalyptic, and nearly paralyzing.”