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"Addie has discovered chocolate"

" But the old woman only shakes her head. "The darkness plays by its own game," she says. " "It makes its own rules," she says. " And you have lost.""

Off to a slow start. I wish we wouldn't have to switch back and forth from past to present.

I get the feeling that this book is going to break my heart.

I wished the oncoming day away, hoping it would never arrive, willing the dawn into nothingness, for the night to last forever, to hold fast, to hang on, fingers clinging to an edge. Futiley.
Eventually the night let go.
Day came as it always did.
The first glimpse of purpling light, soft and tender as a bruise stealing through the windows shutters, was a thing of dread."