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"“The July Girls,” by Alison Littlewood- another excellent one about sisters, the hauntings we leave behind, and the fae people in Cornwall. Claustrophobic enough to make Poe proud." — Aug 20, 2025 08:28PM
"“The July Girls,” by Alison Littlewood- another excellent one about sisters, the hauntings we leave behind, and the fae people in Cornwall. Claustrophobic enough to make Poe proud." — Aug 20, 2025 08:28PM
Winter was long in coming that year. Throughout October the days were bathed in sunlight and the air was clear as crystal. The town kept its cheerful summer aspect, the desert glistened with light, the sand hills every day went through
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“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“Ian once suggested that in addition to the mystery stickers and the sci-fi and animal ones, there should be special stickers for books with happy endings, books with sad endings, books that will trick you into reading the next in the series. 'There should be ones with big teardrops,' he said, 'like for the side of Where the Red Fern Grows. Because otherwise it isn't fair. Like maybe you're accidentally reading it in public, and then everyone will make fun of you for crying.' But what could I affix to the marvelous and perplexing tale of Ian Drake? A little blue sticker with a question mark, maybe. Crossed fingers. A penny in a fountain.”
― The Borrower
― The Borrower
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