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April 15, 2019April 17, 2019 Winged Cynic

The Seven Deadly Sins Book Tag! (because we all have bookish sins…)

March 25, 2019April 13, 2019 Winged Cynic

The Kingkiller Chronicles: So is this series ever going anywhere? // Book Review

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Winged Cynic

The Girl in the Tower: Riveting, absolutely riveting! // Rave Book Review

March 7, 2019March 15, 2019 Winged Cynic

I am back from the blogging grave. For reals this time. (She liiiives!!!)

January 29, 2019March 7, 2019 Winged Cynic

The Bear and the Nightingale: My favorite read of 2018! // Rave Book Review

October 23, 2018January 13, 2019 Winged Cynic

I went on a two-month hiatus. Because I suuuuuuck. // Life updates and other pointless shite

August 19, 2018September 3, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Fictional Family Book Tag! (because books are family, cliche as it is…)

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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something.”

― The Once and Future King

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”

― The Mistborn trilogy

“Old women must know something, or they wouldn’t live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front steps.”

— Six of Crows

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— HP and the Deathly Hallows

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

― The Song of Achilles

“Stories are wild creatures,” the monster said. “When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”

— A Monster Calls

“A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.”

― The Bartimaeus Trilogy

“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

— The Chosen

“On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.”

― The Golem and the Jinni

“Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea.”

― My Lady Jane

“Trism lived in Liir’s heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once.”

— Son of a Witch

“Always check your hats be-
fore donning them. You never know what might be lurking inside.”

— Heartless

“Then he closed his eyes and he began to dream.”

— The Raven King

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

― The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

“For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love.”

— The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

— Circe

“All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— The Lord of the Rings

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

― The Shadow of the Wind

“A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.”

― The Promise

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

— The Thief Lord

“The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing, you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”

― The Once and Future King

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside of them.”

― Inkheart

“I have always felt terrible inside. The reason for this keeps changing.”

— Aristotle and Dante

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as of yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he’d ever met one, chances are they’d both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

— The Bartimaeus trilogy

“It may not have happened exactly like this, but this is the truth, whether it happened or not.”

― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— The Shadow of the Wind

“A demon sat sewing in the corner, and she was the only  who saw.”

― The Bear and the Nightingale

“Why are you here?” she asked him. For a moment she thought he would not answer, then he said, as though reluctant, “I heard you cry.”

— The Girl in the Tower

“Magic is forgetting the world was ever other than as you willed it.”

— The Winter of the Witch

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“Our long bygone burdens mere echoes of the spring,
But where have we come, and where shall we end?
If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?”

— Over the Garden Wall

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