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May 8, 2018May 10, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Beauty and the Beast Tag! (by a non-fan, ironically enough…)

May 7, 2018May 8, 2018 Winged Cynic

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: A favorite classic! // Rave Book Review

May 3, 2018May 3, 2018 Winged Cynic

My Lady Jane: Charming, cheeky, and delightful! // Book Review

May 1, 2018May 3, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3): Hurrah! Catharsis galore! // Rave Book Review

April 26, 2018May 4, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black: Flimsy yet salvageable? // Book Review

April 6, 2018May 3, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) blew me out of the water // Rave Book Review

March 26, 2018May 3, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1): A promising start to a trilogy // Book Review

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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

“In a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

— Circe

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

— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

― The Song of Achilles

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

— The Thief Lord

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

— A Monster Calls

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

— Heartless

“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

“Trism lived in Liir’s heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism’s glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.”

— Son of a Witch

“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

“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

“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

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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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