⋆⭒˚.⋆౨ৎ liv ౨ৎ⋆⭒˚.⋆’s Reviews > Innamorata > Status Update

“it was not the same vibrant life as her cousin marozia, the ever-more-resplendent flower. agnes was another plant, trickier in its arrangement of petals, not so easy to find within a field of many blossoms, all competing for the attention of the sun and the admiration of humans. she was a night-blooming flower that did its growing in the dark, nurtured by the moon and weaned by the stars.”

“her silence was as much a choice as any speech had ever been. it was not withdrawal, not cowering. as she had discovered, silence was not the absence of a thing. it was a force in and of itself. she brandished it like a sword. and in that manner, she could alter the shape of things. perhaps only in the minutest fashion, but her screams had never done so much. they had been empty air.”

“yet more life had gone into marozia somehow. she had leached more water from the earth, soaked more sun from the sky. and perhaps she had left agnes bereft of these things, or perhaps she had drained them directly from agnes herself, like a snake’s teeth are milked for venom, which is then brushed onto the arrow-tips of men.”

i have high hopes for this one