“Look, it's like a handshake," he said finally. "You know when some guy goes in for the shake and you've never met him before, and he puts it out there, and you just know in that moment right before the shake if it's going to be sweaty or not? It's like that."
"So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format."
"I did explain it," Ronan insisted, so ferociously that Chainsaw flapped, certain she was in trouble.”
― The Dream Thieves
"So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format."
"I did explain it," Ronan insisted, so ferociously that Chainsaw flapped, certain she was in trouble.”
― The Dream Thieves
“It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Your beauty is not a tax you are required to pay to take up space in this world.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
I have a duty!”
― The Wee Free Men
I have a duty!”
― The Wee Free Men
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