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"I love sleeping. Waking is more and more hateful the older I get. I say this as if I've lived too long. I'm twenty-two."

"It had rained overnight, and in the trees it was still raining. Every branch along 65th Street shed leaves on us. The leaves were dark, and their moisture made noise. There was a sense that at any time they might bite—they were like bats" I'm loving how this author writes

"The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy—flying from her peak."

"...before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure."

"...but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures."

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain."

"She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living, breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she so raged against."

"Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds."

"Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity."

“They sensed somehow that she lived in the penumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.”

"It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened." - One chapter in and I can already tell this is gonna be good