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“All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

tags: luck, madness, uprooted

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“He’d also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha’s daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn’t much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

tags: fantasy-books

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“But he wasn’t going for the sake of corruption or the kingdom. His tower was broken, he’d drunk Spindle-water, and he’d held my hand. So now he was going to run away as quick as he could, and find himself some new stone walls to hide behind. He’d keep himself locked away for ten years this time, until he withered his own roots, and didn’t feel the lack of them anymore.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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2013 Debut Author Challenge — 187 members — last activity Dec 23, 2013 04:48PM
Interested in joining the Debut Author Challenge? You can check out all the deets here - http://hobbitsies.net/debut-author-challenge/ This group wil ...more

2013 YA Contemporary Challenge — 126 members — last activity Jan 14, 2015 10:28AM
The Goodreads group for the 2013 YA Contemporary Challenge hosted by Katie's Book Blog. ...more

A Killer (Re)Read - The Throne of Glass Series Readalong — 1267 members — last activity Sep 02, 2019 02:28AM
Join us in summer 2014 as we read the first two books in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series--Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight--in advance of the ...more