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Angela DeMott said:
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This may be my favorite book of the series, and it's definitely the one that I've read the most. There's this very intense, propulsive quality that the other books don't necessarily have, and from the O.W.L. chapter on, the plot feels inescapable, fo
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“Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“The wicked and the unhappy always stole the show because sin and suffering were the most universal human experiences.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event--a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
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