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I just don’t understand how it’s possible to write like that— so utterly beautifully and seriously and halfheartedly silly and completely, deadly precious and earnest with your language. Like a sword and a flower petal all at once: just cuts through my heart clean with beauty. I love it I love it I love it !!

I love this book. It’s so truly and wholly other. It’s so beautiful I almost started crying reading it tonight. The language of it is beyond beautiful, I just can’t sometimes. To write like that— ugh. It’s just so incredible. He must’ve eaten magic soup to make this. It’s the only way. My God. It’s just utterly beautiful.

“The moon was gone, but to the magician’s eyes, the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.”

I think I’m having an ethereal experience with this book. Reading it over again is becoming the joy of my life. My God. This is truly one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. To see it clearly now is bliss.

It’s Midnight on the dot and I am in utter awe of this book. My God. The first time I read it, the font, the cover, everything about it (with the exception of the foreword) made it seem deranged and ridiculous. I couldn’t grasp it or understand it or see it how it truly was: a beautiful, old, wonderfully serious and deeply meaningful fantasy. I loved Peter S Beagle’s ‘Innkeepers Song’, but I think