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You told me that if you only ever look in front, your view will be quite narrow. So whenever I feel stuck or don’t know what to do, I try to broaden my view. Relax my shoulders and walk sideways like a crab.

You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself

When it was over, I collected all the bouquets, not wanting to leave a single flower behind. I had a selfish, desperate desire for her gravesite to be so packed with blossoms and bulbs that you could see them from the road. I wanted to advertise how deeply loved my mother had been. I wanted every passerby to question if they had a love like that.

I talked about how love was an action, an instinct, a response roused by unplanned moments and small gestures, an inconvenience in someone else's favour

We got a bit lost down here, but then...cats led the way

You have no choice but to learn to face it. The fear of loss...it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.

Despite herself, despite what she'd done, she decided she wanted Rowan to call her milady at least once every day.

"I've always felt the origin of anger in my vagina and am surprised it is not mentioned more in literature" 😂

Stop, she wanted to cry out, please stop. You cannot all fit on the space between the oceans, you cannot grow enough food on the land beneath the mountains. You cannot graze enough livestock on the grasses around your cities, you cannot build enough homes on the peaks of your hills. You must stop, so that I can rest beneath your ever-increasing weight.

Mankind was just so impossibly heavy. There were so many of them and they showed no sign of halting their endless reproduction

Aelin is my heart. I taught her what I knew, and it worked because our magics understood each other deep down—just as our souls did.

Nuri, in this country there are rapeseed fields and banks of heather and lavender! Because it rains so much it is full of flowers. And so much green. More than you could ever imagine. Where there are bees, there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope.

And if you should find soul sundered from flesh, order a drink for us at the first tavern you come across in the afterlife. Well settle the tab when we get there.

"Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified."

Modern day Fae fantasy/murder mystery was not what I expected. A nice change of scenery from ACOTAR and ToG. Plus the FMC has a cat (ish), so what's not to like.

"Humans hadn't evolved from primates; we'd devolved from them"

We didn't evolve from primates; we devolved.

This is an extraordinarily ambitious book. It requires patience and a good memory! The first part of the book consists of short stories of each of the nine main characters lives. These are beautifully written and create vivid characters. You have to have patience as these character building pages are vital to the ensuing story where the characters beliefs and passions collide.

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Not even a quarter of the way through yet I'm loving this book. Its full of beautiful metaphors and the narration just adds to the magic and mystery of the book. There are many references to other books I love, cocktails and a cat - how can this book get any better?! I may have to physically read this after I finish.