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“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those that speak it, not those that it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“A lump formed in his throat as he remembered sun-lit bluebells in St Ignatius's churchyard, and kicking a red ball into long grass under the yews. That's not home, he insisted to himself, but he realised he was longing for his younger self, not the place, and never having felt homesickness before, wondered if that was true for everyone who spoke of it.”
― The Thief on the Winged Horse
― The Thief on the Winged Horse
“There was something under this, a low, gentle humming. I didn't know enough to identify it, didn't want to expose my ignorance. The sound of the universe itself, or the sound of our listening to it?”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.'
'yet seldom do they fail of their seed.' said Legolas. 'And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked for”
― The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King Jigsaw Book
'yet seldom do they fail of their seed.' said Legolas. 'And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked for”
― The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King Jigsaw Book
“Is there a monster in it, Papa?'
'Wouldn't be much of a story if there weren't.'
Oh spiff, I like a monster story. Is he outstandingly horrid? A spear of longing pierces the father as he strokes his son's hair.
'He's horrid in his way. But then other times, he's sorrowful and just wants to go to sleep.'
The boy chuckles. 'I never want that.'
'But this feller's been awake a thousand years. He's bushed.'
'I don't see why that should make him sad.'
'That is why we have stories, Nolly. So we can know what it's like to be someone else.”
"Why would we want that?"
"Because sometimes it's beastly tiring being us.”
― Shadowplay
'Wouldn't be much of a story if there weren't.'
Oh spiff, I like a monster story. Is he outstandingly horrid? A spear of longing pierces the father as he strokes his son's hair.
'He's horrid in his way. But then other times, he's sorrowful and just wants to go to sleep.'
The boy chuckles. 'I never want that.'
'But this feller's been awake a thousand years. He's bushed.'
'I don't see why that should make him sad.'
'That is why we have stories, Nolly. So we can know what it's like to be someone else.”
"Why would we want that?"
"Because sometimes it's beastly tiring being us.”
― Shadowplay
Daisy’s 2025 Year in Books
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14 friends
135 books
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211 books
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32 books
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314 books
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