Katie O’Reilly > Recent Status Updates

“Thank you for coming to eat and be eaten”

“I asked the garden for you”

“If you put my name in your mouth, I will always listen”

“he is a cobwebbed collection of pretty untruths”

“he will always be a bloodied plaything and Laurie will always leave him to die”

“There is something wrong with him and the way he constantly wants to put the whole garden in his mouth and swallow”

“The cracks between his teeth are packed with soil”

“The garden—
—wants
—you back”

“He is Icarus with wings of swan feathers, who chose to fly into the sun because it looked like a pretty boy”

“now they only haunt the places where together they once were lovely”

Truly astonished to discover I’m only 54% in

“Evander can see it now, Laurie’s hot, wet mouth on his bones”

Instead of the emotional center of the book being Heathcliff’s speech about how much he loves her, here his speech is all about how he was way too into her!!

Watching CATHERINE EARNSHAW get slowly humbled in this book has been the most painful thing I’ve read in a while

One thing I’ll never buy is that Heathcliff was a sad sack in bed

“Crime is not for the fairer sex”

Endless but also pretty absorbing?

“Turning pollen and rot into sweet, sweet honey”

“There were some things even they couldn’t collect”

“Reed dreamed of sourwood and that alone”

“Did you like the duck, handsome?”

“She would have made someone a perfectly good wife”

“It was knowing she *could* turn them into decayed appendixes that was important”

“Your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling”

“He’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man”

“The most polite infestation of poltergeists”

“I play rage and ruination”

“I’ve been in the company of monsters all this time”