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“I lean my head into her shoulder as we stare across the pond, and she drapes her arm around me. It feels as though we are part of the landscape, just like any other element: the water, the trees, the sky, and the girls on the dock.
I feel more than reassured. I feel rooted.”

“for aren’t all the best novels borne from some madness, which is borne from truth?”

“A mystery is the most seductive of poisons; it intoxicates the soul.”

“I have kept myself; and, I trust, shall keep myself again.”

putting this on-hold as i (im)patiently wait for my physical copy to arrive <33

“Can we leave the past behind us?” she asked.
Could they? The question was everything.
“That’s an excellent place for the past,” said Suheyla. “If you don’t leave it there, it clutters everything up and you just keep tripping over it.”

Because my copy of ‘Muse of Nightmares’ by Laini Taylor has been delayed in the mail, I found myself reading this in the meantime. 🤓

Charlotte McConaghy's previous works – 'Migrations' and 'Once There Were Wolves' were both 5-star reads for me. ♡

I contemplated on either waiting to get my hands on a hardcopy of 'Wild Dark Shore' or satiate my thirst for a great read by downloading an epub version ...

I DOVE for the latter ((pun intended))

"In horror's wake, hope is a bountiful garden."

"But as with all things, it wasn’t the spooky stories that got to Nate. It was the real-life ones, because, routinely, real-life stories were far worse than the imagined ones. The spooky stories were an escape from the truth."

“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”

“Weren’t all souls finely calibrated mysteries?”

this went from 0-100 real quick and so had my emotional response from reading it

“…we both look up to see what the sky does, how it dances green and purple and blue, the colors too brilliant to be in Werner’s, and I am crying still but now it is for the beauty of the world, and for its gentle pull, for the mystery of it and its timing, for its deep, deep knowing, when I was so close to the edge and now I am returned…”

“If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then reliable handguns with a lot of stopping power are a final girl’s.”