Badreroo’s Reviews > The Book That Wouldn’t Burn > Status Update

"Nostalgia is the best and the worst feeling - complex - nothing has the ability to so delight and wound us simultaneously, except perhaps for love."

The Raven began to hop anxiously from foot to foot.
'Still. Not. Helping,' Livira managed past gritted teeth.

Never thought I would read about a bird this funny lmao

"The best-kept secrets are pushed aside, levered to the extremities of the mind, so far from the day's thinking that to press them any further away would be to forget them entirely."

And what if you tried pressing the secret so far you would forget it, but it didn't work? What are you supposed to do then?

"You go on up, Livira. I'll feed your boyfriend some of my butter biscuits. See if we can put some meat on his bones."
"He's not my--"

Yeah right, not yet*

"Some silences stretch, the tension builds and builds again until the suddenness of the inevitable snap. That's the quiet which lies between people. Other silences fall like a heavy blanket, enduring so long that they become a second skin which can be punctured but never broken."

But how do I know when to break the silence? When do I confess?

"She was clean, fed, chosen, and special. And it was all her fault.
And even if the library contained a million books and each book a million words, there couldn't be among all that wisdom a single line that would convince her otherwise."

"The person who finished writing it was very different from the one who started it."

"Some things when set in motion by the lightest touch cannot be stopped by a whole army."

Remember what I said about this book and its lines? Witness another perfect example right here

"Without guilt we would all be monsters.
And memory is the ink with which we list our crimes."

Damn, this book is spittin' crazy lines