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was so tired of being afraid all the time. It felt like I had been afraid and afraid without stopping forever.
YES. Loved Naomi Novik’s writing in this novel, it reminded me of Katherine Arden’s trilogy but this novel is paced more to my preference than Arden’s trilogy, which I DNF’d. After I read Spinning Silver I went straight to A Deadly Education and absolutely DEVOURED the Scholomance trilogy in as many days (shoutout to my local library for having all three on the shelf)!
“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
― Spear
― Spear
“Like a Wife
The week before my wedding, my friend's dad
said: just don't get fat, like other wives do.
And so I brined him in a deep salt bath, added
thyme and celery. Devoured him whole, in one
big bite, so he could see just how hungry a
woman can be.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
The week before my wedding, my friend's dad
said: just don't get fat, like other wives do.
And so I brined him in a deep salt bath, added
thyme and celery. Devoured him whole, in one
big bite, so he could see just how hungry a
woman can be.”
― What Kind of Woman: Poems
“She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn’t see the pattern. There was a piece missing.”
― Hild
― Hild
“Even the dead had names.”
― Spear
― Spear
“All different yet somehow alike-not family but easy with one another and loud, laughing and singing, bright and clean. The same bright, the same clean she remembered from the scent of the promised lake. The girl’s heart soared: a story came alive from legend, knights hunting dragons!”
― Spear
― Spear
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