Jess Ravitz’s Reviews > The Songbird & the Heart of Stone > Status Update

“One moment, I was standing with Asar. The next the world tilted. I thought, this all hurts a lot for a house that is supposedly not real”

“That split second of shock on his face was a treasure. I wanted to put it in a locket to wear around my neck”

“Saescha has looked just as she had in death”

And you. I hope you watch them all burn

Sometimes youd know someone so well youd recognize them anywhere

“Did she? I like her, Asar. Be sure to bring her more cake”

“Excellent. I hope he died slow”

“In the name of the Mother, he could not stand up after he saw you in that nightgown. Friends, she says”

“You are a good enough musician to exhaust the dead”

“I just played the notes that sounded like you”

“His scars against mine. Mistakes against mistakes”

“No I couldn’t save them both, but I wouldn’t have tried even if I could”

“The hands reached up his arm, clawing at his shoulder, his chest, his face, tearing at his left eye”

“There is nothing more dangerous than a sin that felt right”

Doubt was a disease. The harder I tried to wipe it out, the hotter the fever blazed

I was able to use the illusion of Psyche to build the life I wanted for myself

“Bc the doubt would lead to desperation, and that would lead to mistakes, and that would lead to my downfall. But I was never good at listening”

“I believed that outbid would protect us, that we would find a vampire to save in his name” 💔

“And I saw her hold those tiny vampire babies and snuff them out. She had culled the population of creatures that had kidnapped and abused her”

“We Al have ghosts in our pasts. We can’t give them the power to define our futures too”

They actually out here having sex w gods huh?

“She had knelt beneath the body and picked up the five wilted flower petals, which had fallen from the vampires pockets”

“I’m surrounded by traitors”

“An Heir Mark” what the fuck

“Don’t pretend that I was the one who turned her into whatever the fuck that was”

“The visions Atroxus had showed me of beaches soaked in blood now seemed terrifyingly imminent” fantastic

“He made it, I whispered”

“He led me with the innocent infatuation of a teenage crush, and I led him right to his death”

“It takes a brave soul to travel to vampires to preach light, Dawndrinker”

Or perhaps that’s why you would be a perfect match. A girl who can only love broken things, and a boy so broken he can only love what he cannot have

Asar was a vampire, a child of Nyaxia, but his heart belonged to the dead

Even gods crave danger. It is a mistake. Still, I kiss her” “his heart was so hungry for her he let it devour the world for a fleeting taste

I smell fate upon you. But I also smell hunger

“What’s his name, Iliae? Just his name”

“Not that the path helped you last time anyway”

“He squeezed once, so quick I questioned if I’d imagine it”

“It reminded me of the way Atroxus hand had slid under my dress on my offering night” excuse me?

“She was hungry -for warmth, food, love, love, moon, and for the stars”

He likes you, even if he doesn’t know it yet. He will ruin you one day

He used to have a dimple on his face, but not anymore bc half of his jaw was missing

Gods why did his blood smell like that

He moaned a sludge of almost words. I chose to believe it was meant to be, whatever you need Mishe, bc I am so grateful that you’re saving my life

Hell be very unhappy when he wakes up

Iliae, why are you on top of me

He had devoted himself to fixing the broken things that no one else saw

“The third guardian. The supposedly dead guardian”

“At least if the dead got me, it would be humiliating than succumbing to the magic of the god I was supposed to serve” lol

“The glass wall. Gods above. We were fucked”

Aw it’s giving flashbacks like the end of the precious book

“Mische, please, I’ve been waiting so long. Ive missed you”