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July 11, 2018July 18, 2018 Winged Cynic

Blue Lily, Lily Blue: The perfect middle book in a series! // Rave Book Review

June 29, 2018July 11, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Ultimate Harry Potter Tag! // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 4

June 28, 2018July 11, 2018 Winged Cynic

Why Harry totally should’ve ended up with Luna Lovegood // Harry Potter Week, Day 3

June 27, 2018July 11, 2018 Winged Cynic

Ranking the Snitch outta Harry Potter! // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 2

June 26, 2018July 11, 2018 Winged Cynic

The Hogwarts Tag // Harry Potter Anniversary Week, Day 1

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Why The Daughter of Smoke and Bone both thrilled and irked me // Book Review

June 7, 2018June 27, 2018 Winged Cynic

Circe by Madeline Miller: A tale of stirring resilience! // Rave 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

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

― The Mistborn trilogy

“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

“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

“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

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”

― Aristotle and Dante

“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, holding these things in his head, he climbed up on the roof and gazed up at the sky. Then he closed his eyes and he began to dream.”

— The Raven King

“I’ve always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

― The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

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

— Circe

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  • The Beauty and the Beast Tag! (by a non-fan, ironically enough...)
  • Circe by Madeline Miller: A tale of stirring resilience! // Rave Book Review
  • My Lady Jane: Charming, cheeky, and delightful! // Book Review
  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue: The perfect middle book in a series! // Rave Book Review
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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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