RoAnna Sylver’s Reviews > Shadows of Ourselves > Status Update

“The last time I went somewhere with you, you literally kidnapped me, you creepy fucking dude! Do you have any idea how alarming that is? You’re problematic.”

IM SCREAMING

"The world was only just starting to turn."

Wow.
Yes.
Yes.

"Let him be ash."

...holy shit. :)

“He looks like Mr. Tumnus.”
I frowned. “Are you implying those are mutually exclusive? Mr. Tumnus was pretty fucking dapper, Riley.”

this is an amazing and important conversation

"we’re all constantly trying to turn our faces away and pretend we can’t see how much things hurt us, how much people change us. It hurts so much to look, but if you don’t you miss a hell of a view."

...i love this book so much.

"I doubted any painting I ever completed could capture the vast silence. Something about it was familiar, like I’d felt my own throat flood with it time after time."

this is just so good it hurts

"We waste life when we think it will stretch on forever—we throw away the minutes like nothing, like dust and spare change. We’re fucking idiots."

Phoebus Staring At Ceiling.jpg

I knew he wanted to keep up that aura of mystery, could see that he loved walking around like a living question mark in the way he smirked at me as I studied him now. He wanted me to take the bait—I just couldn’t figure out why.

...ever want a book and its writing to... not end?

"This wasn’t bad. It was devastating. A ten on the emotional Richter scale. More than I could handle right now."

(musical theatre brain: "if he said he loved me, i'd be lost, i'd be frightened. i'd turn my head, i'd back away. I wouldn't want to know.")

“Fuck you!”
“If I went around fucking everyone who wanted me I’d never have time left for anything else, now, would I?”

OMFG I SNORTED, this is up there with No need to call me Sir, Professor