Jordan’s Reviews > My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories > Status Update

"Rules make people feel safe. But they can turn into judgements."

man that makes me want to cry

"Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list."

:(

SO THOUGHTFUL

i like holly black's writing

"It costs money just to sit on Santa's lap."
!!!

"I don't know if the champagne had woken up, but it woke me up. For the first time that day, I had a giddy feeing of anticipation. The feeling you were supposed to have when you went to a party. The feeling that as the night went on, reality might grow more malleable, like taffy, until anything could happen and everything might change."

"Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning."

"...he said in a voice that shivered down my spine, a voice that seemed to come from a reality that had gotten a little bent."
oh intriguing. I wasn't expecting a kind of creepier take in this book but i'm not surprised because this is holly black's story