Virginia Ronan ♥ Herondale ♥’s Reviews > The Spirit Bares Its Teeth > Status Update

"Veil sickness can manifest itself in the strangest ways, and healing will be difficult as long as you cling to this masculinity. Does that make sense?"
No. Because this is not a sickness. This is me. "Yes, sir."

Can we get rid of that piece of work already? I hate this Headmaster. He's horrible. Silas, don't listen to him. You're a better man than he'll ever be.

"First the tutors, and then this, the Veil sickness, whatever it is.
They can't keep scraping away layers of me thinking they can find the girl they want underneath."

Ugh! The injustice and how those girls are treated and treat each other is already horrible. I want to break out Silas! He needs to get the hell out of there before it's too late. >_<

"Despite all the evidence to the contrary, I believe wholeheartedly, in my soul, that I am a boy. How arrogant of me, to think I could change something so God-given as my sex.
What is sickness, if not that?"

This book already hurts. T_T I'm worried about Silas and what's going to happen to him at that Sanitorium and Finishing School.

"How cruel is it, that I only get to be myself as a costume? I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the fleeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe."

I swear, Andrew Joseph White always gets me with his books. I can already tell that this will be a tough one & I'm only 34 pages in. >_<