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“There was given to me a certainty that this, at last, was my real voice.
There was silence in the dark assembly long enough for me to have read my book out yet again. At last the judge spoke.
‘Are you answered?’ he said.
‘Yes,’ said I.”

CHILLS

“It was as bitter a truth as I’d ever tasted, but I drank it.”

Ahh part 2 is just SO GOOD. My admiration for this masterpiece grows with each read. If I could ever write anything even a tenth as rich and brilliant as this book, I would die content.

“Let the gods answer my charge if they can. It may well be that, instead of answering, they’ll strike me mad or leprous or turn me into beast, bird, or tree. But will not all the world then know (and the gods will know it knows) that this is because they have no answer?”

“Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me.”

Becoming an annual read ✨

“I cannot hope for mercy.”
“Infinite hopes—and fears—may both be yours. Be sure that, whatever else you get, you will not get justice.”
“Are the gods not just?”
“Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”

Now, flung at me like frolic or insolence, there came as if it were a voice—no words—but if you made it into words it would be, ‘Why should your heart not dance?’