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“Fae were highly sensitive babies. Their tantrums could last centuries.”

“And don’t forget why they banned these books for mortals in the first place”
“Why is that?”
“Because an education is the most powerful weapon of them all.”

“Don’t you dare mistake compassion for lack of courage,” he growled. “Anyone can slaughter their enemies. Hate is easy-it’s mercy that requires the greatest strength. I’ll be damned if I let you believe that beautiful heart of yours is a weakness.”

Why does Ove seem like he’s in his late 70’s rather than his late 50’s?

I really enjoyed the audiobook. I liked this better than the first book. It was well written, the characters lovable and the plot interesting. 4⭐️

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“It’s the first time in my life that I’ve let the anger fill me. That I’ve swallowed it down instead of choking on it. I was afraid to feel it, because I didn’t want to be like dad..”

“If humans were collectively capable of compassion, we never would have gotten here in the first place.”

I just finished book 2 and am so excited that I don’t have to wait like to read the final book in this trilogy!! I thought I was going to have to wait for a few months.

“People like me don’t change the world,’ said Kissen. ‘We just survive it.’

I’m living for the Pae/Kai banter.

“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, seeds become history.”

“Funerals are for the living,” said Kissen as she noticed Inara looking. The dead don’t mind what the world does to them.”

“To think that the world could fall to ruin due to the decisions of a single small-minded man in charge—that that was all it took to doom everyone—“

“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing on either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel.”

“I now stood at a crossroads, and I didn’t dare look back at the road behind me—the road littered with monotony, complacency and other people’s expectations.”

“Isn’t that the point of art—to tame the monsters in us?”