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"Most daughters—I'd bet at least 90 percent of them—would react to their mother crying, hold her, comfort her, but the sight of mine in this state puts me on edge."

I never really thought I'd see aspects of my relationships with my parents in a book.

"Why, why, why? Why do you want to live, Rysn? Why do want to better your situation?"

Is it acceptable to want to cry just on the second chapter of the book?

I'm doing a year of Sanderson too woop.

"The dogs that are brought in suffer from distempers, from broken limbs, from infected birds, from mange, from neglect, benign or malign, from old age, from malnutrition, from intestinal parasites, but most of all from their own fertility. There are simply too many of them."

"The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing."

"Home always shrinks in times of absence, always bleeds away some of its majesty, because what is home, after all, apart from the place one returns to when the adventure is over? Home is an end to glory, a stopping point when the tale is done."

"Children have always tumbled down rabbit holes, fallen through mirrors, been swept away by unseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes."

My pile of unfinished books this year is higher than my pile of finished books. Let's hope I can finish this

"High shall climb the trees of Kementári, that the Eagles of the King may house therein!"

Finally deus ex Eagles is solved. I got chills.

Valaquenta ends with the introduction of Sauron. I'm super hyped but it's slow going with this book.

"And it is said by the Eldar that in the water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen."

I tried to read this book in 2016, went through 25-30% of it and then put it down for a bit. Of course, I forgot everything in a week and never picked it up again.

This book reads like the Bible, but thankfully everyone agrees in this case that this is fiction.

“Parts of a whole,” Linus said. “We all have our issues. I have a spare tire around my middle. His father is Satan. Nothing that can’t be worked out if we try hard enough.”


I'm worried I'll never find such a wholesome book ever again.

Kids being validated by adults, oh my heart.

"Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?"

Maybe need to introspect a little since I'm relating hard to a 40 year old.

My last kiddy book for the year, hopefully.

Gosh, my whole profile looks like I'm a Alexander McCall Smith fangirl.

Someone stop me!

Domenica is very quotable.

"People did not spend enough time sitting and taking, she thought, and it was important that sitting and talking time be preserved."

I didn't buy this book because I heard about the TV series, if I had, I would started reading from book one. The fact is, I found this book in a Sunday book market, I loved the cover and the title so I picked it up. Costed me 40 rupees (that's less than a dollar). I'm going to be judging the whole series by this book. Pretty unique so far. I like the scenery and the simplicity.

Going to need a dictionary with this one.

"Legendary gold (mysteriously obtained, if not positively ill-gotten), is, as everyone knows, anyone’s for the finding – unless the search is interrupted."

"I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

“But he’s in shackles, right? You beat him?” “I like to think I beat him in a moral sense, in that he’s an assassin and I’m not, but apart from that, no, not really.”