Status Updates From The Book of Atrix Wolfe

"It's frightening," he said finally, so softly that Atrix strained to hear, "knowing that someone as powerful and experienced and wise as you, could make such a mockery of everything we were taught."

“Nothing that exists is insignificant.”

“You have so much power,” she said, “and so little regard for your life, you would have let me kill you. I don’t know what you care about enough to threaten you with.”

“Close your eyes,” the Oak lord suggested. “It blinds you because you’re trying to see. Listen.”

What a master storyteller McKillip was…

So far, I’m not as taken with this one as I have been with the last many McKillip books I’ve read, but I’m still definitely intrigued, and at the moment, it’s growing on me…

“Sun laid soft, warm hands on Talis’ hair; he lifted his face to it blindly, felt light like sweet wine on his lips.”

“You’re coming alive,” he said. “Your eyes are listening.”

“His own face did not; it was quite calm under her gaze. There was something odd about it she could not have described, except that it was the only face she had ever seen that made her want to keep looking at it.”

I already have such affection for Talis. Amazing how McKillip can do that💜

"Each moment must concern itself with life."

“There is no honor for you here. And therefore no dishonor in retreat.”

He loosed the Queen's hand finally, touched her lips with his fingers. Then he looked at Saro. "I thought I knew what sorrow is," he said. "Now I must leave you, and now I know."

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