Emily M’s Reviews > What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours > Status Update

“Like it or not, the ‘wolf’ was standing in her path so she couldn’t get by. As for ‘why’ it must have been due to her red cape. Our Dornička had decided that once you reach your late fifties you can wear whatever you want and nobody can say anything… Looks like Mount Radhošt is different”

“Sometimes, when Marie and Willa spoke together in French, glancing around as they did so, Day felt that they were disparaging her mode of dress, but Ed had reassured her that that was just how people who could only speak English naturally responded to fluent French speakers” 😂

“A key ring gets left in your care and you reject all responsibility for it yet can’t bring yourself to throw it away. Not can you give the thing away - to whom can someone of good conscience give such an object as a key. Always up to something…its powers of interference can only be guessed at.”

“You looked at me, and this is how I first saw you…I saw your eyes like flint arrows, and your chin set against the world, and I saw the curve of your lips, which is so beautiful it is almost illusory- your eyes freeze a person, but then the flickering flame of your mouth beckons”. Damn, what a description!

I don’t know how this went from “my friend has a creepy house of locked doors” to “man struggles to figure out how to support boyfriend’s daughter has she experiences first ‘celebrity crush actually hurts women’ heartbreak” but ooof.

“the gems were paste. Then she discovered that her base metal bangle was missing and quickly realized that she could only have lost it to the person she was stealing from; she’d been distracted by the baubles and the appeal of those delicate earlobes.”
Someone please write a whole thief4thief sapphic book, because I am loving this!