“You will be the end of me, he thinks and then shakes his head. No, that's not it. From you, I begin.”
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“Naming is a form of power. It cements a commitment to the subject of your expertise and, in the case of nature, often an ancestral continuity, too. Naming is an assertion of meaning, and in turn it creates meaning. It allows us to greet the things we know like old friends.”
― Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
― Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“He had been tempted to bury his face into his soup bowl and lap at it like a greedy animal. He wanted to place himself between Alex's legs now and do the same to her”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“It was strange to Alex that the smell of books was always the same. The ancient documents in the climate-controlled stacks and glass cases of Beinecke. The research rooms at Sterling. The changeable library of Lethe House. They all had the same scent as the fluorescent-lit reading rooms full of cheap paperbacks she’d lived in as a kid.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
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