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I love this book. 5 Stars. All the Stars.It’s a slow burn. I can easily acknowledge that, but the characters are intriguing from the start and Kay’s writing is just beautiful. The world can be a bit confusing as well if you don’t understand the backg ...more "
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""What, I wonder, is worse than ugliness?"
"You do not really mean that," Rodrigo said. " I have part of an answer, though. Worse is when what little space there is for men to move back and forth between worlds disappears because the worlds are lost to hatred."" — Mar 09, 2017 08:44PM
""What, I wonder, is worse than ugliness?"
"You do not really mean that," Rodrigo said. " I have part of an answer, though. Worse is when what little space there is for men to move back and forth between worlds disappears because the worlds are lost to hatred."" — Mar 09, 2017 08:44PM
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Forgetting... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“Bards don’t believe in goodbyes—we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we’ve known and been before, and often at just the right time.” I smiled. “We’ll meet again.”
― The Chronicle of Heloise & Grimple
― The Chronicle of Heloise & Grimple
“Things are or they are not, Vasya,” he interrupted. “If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means that you do not believe it is there, which means it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
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