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“No. But I can read [my sister] well enough.” I tilted my head to the side, hawklike. “Perhaps one day I’ll make a Card to read your mind, too, Brutus Rowan.”

(Screaming, crying, throwing up 😭)

Why is the Nightmare so tsundere?

Oh my god just TALK TO EACH OTHER

What’s taking them so long?
The Nightmare’s tail made a whooshing sound. Find out.
How am I supposed to do that?
Best stick to the old ways.
Which are?
Pressing a bloody ear to the door, I should think.

What’s taking them so long?
The Nightmare’s tail made a whooshing sound. Find out.
How am I supposed to do that?
Best stick to the old ways. Which are?
Pressing a bloody ear to the door, I should think.

Elspeth: "I don't have magic"

Also Elspeth, 5 seconds later: "I can sense all the hidden Providence cards in people's pockets"

girl 🙄

My magic moves, [the Nightmare] said. My magic bites. My magic soothes. My magic frights. You are young and not so bold. I am unflinching—five hundred years old.

"Still, it was the first time I stopped fearing the Nightmare—the voice in my head, the creature with strange yellow eyes and an eerie, smooth voice. Eleven years later, and I don’t fear him at all. Even if I should."

(Apparently I'm only in the mood for high fantasy at the moment)

Red: I don’t know how to describe how I see the world. I don’t have anything to compare it with. I could say that I see it how it is, but I know too much for that. Like—what’s it called, the thing with the shadows on the wall of the cave? Plato?
Malhar: You are a disturbing combination of erudition and instability.
Red: Oh yes. I disturb even myself.

(I need this book to stop calling me out 😭)

"[Cora's] words taste jagged, and she knows she’s talking in the way her aunts don’t like, that her eyes are probably fever bright. This is why Cora is always quiet—when something actually matters, it matters too much, and everyone can taste it in her words. It scares them, how much it matters to her."

Cora is always telling quiet lies, making her aunts think she’s fine. No one ever wants to know the full truth of the carousel of Cora’s mind; she learned that lesson the hard way.

Cora suspects that her Auntie Zeng is a pyromaniac.
I have never set something on fire without a good reason is Auntie Zeng’s response when Cora says this out loud, which isn’t exactly a denial.

Holy hell, that was a crazy start

"(But that, he supposed, was what it meant to be human. To exist in constant opposition to yourself, you as your very best friend at the exact same time you were your own worst enemy. Oh, how stupid it was to be a person.)"

(Page numbers got messed up idk)

“You and me, we’re good. But this place—we’re not good here. Something’s wrong with this house. Something is rotten.”
"If it even is a house.”
“Yeah.”
"Yeah.”
“Shit.”

(Getting major backrooms vibes and loving it)

"The staircase didn’t belong here. It didn’t belong in a way that went far deeper than just a staircase shouldn’t be out in the woods. This felt like something weirder, something worse. Like this staircase did not belong here in the world at all.
It’s not from here, he thought—an absurd notion. And yet."

(Super invested already!)