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“They always end up alone in the stories—witches, I mean—living in the wood mountains or locked in towers. I suppose it would take a brave man to love a witch, and men are mostly cowards.” He looked directly at me as he finished, with a kind of raised-chin boldness that said: I am not a coward.

🥹🥹 january and samuel are literally my babies

"Word-magic comes at a cost, you see, as power always does. Words draw their vitality from their writers, and thus the strength of a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel."

what a beautiful first chapter!! love books that make words feel like magic tbh