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“there was too much world. there were too many choices, and those only seemed to lead to more choices. that was the business of living, and neither of them had ever acquired the skill.”

“this was his place. who would he be untethered from this house? from its wild gardens and gray stone, from the birds that sang in its hedges, from the bare branches of its trees.”

it hurts every time :’)))

“it was too easy to imagine some future darlington joking about the delicious irony of ignorant galaxy stern being fatally clocked in the jaw by rogue knowledge.”

lol

“this was why he had done it, not because of guilt or pride but because this was the moment he’d been waiting for: the chance to show someone else wonder, to watch them realize that they had not been lied to, that the world they’d been promised as children was not something that had to be abandoned, that there really was something lurking in the wood, between the stars, that everything was full of mystery.”

“daniel arlington prided himself on being prepared for anything, but if he’d had to choose a way to describe alex stern, it would have been “an unwelcome surprise.” he could think of a lot of other terms for her, but none of them were polite, and darlington always endeavored to be polite.”

how i missed them!!

time to reread my favorite book of all time in preparation for dead beat. i’m so excited