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quote 2015-01-05 21:28

Although they had nothing in common with the views of each other, they had everything in common with one thing: the promise and threat of men. Here, they agreed, was where security and risk lay. And both had come to terms. Some, like Lina, who had experienced both deliverance and destruction at their hands, withdrew. Some. like Sorrow, who apparently were never coached by other females, became their play. Some like her shipmates fought them. Others, the pious, obeyed them. And a few like herself, after a mutual loving relationship, became like children when the man was gone.

pg. 115 The churched women vs Rebekka's shipmates

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quote 2014-11-10 20:12

There Might Be Cupcakes and Books

My mother adopted her caramel voice--the one that oozed richly about you so slowly you didn't realize you were possibly being suffocated.

caramel Maggie Stiefvater Mercy Falls quotes series

review 2014-07-14 16:30

Mischievous Books

“We are what we are, Niall, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.”

Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely) - Melissa Marr

I choose to do a review of the entire Wicked Lovely series under INK because it is my favourite. I am obsessed with this book, its world, its prose, and its characters. Characters that come alive on the page and make you want to know them at a personal level. I am going to try and be as unspoily as possible because I want someone to read this and enjoy every twist and turn, every tear, every laughter as much as I did. What I loved about these books is the characters, as a writer myself I am very character driven, and Melissa delivers some of the most real and amazing characters i have ever read. They are not one dimensional, good or evil, they all have flaws and fears. A character who is the hero in one book could be the villain in another. No one is black and white which even in a fantastical world about faeries makes it believable.

The series in its entirety is:

Wicked Lovely

Ink Exchange

Fragile Eternity

Radiant Shadows

Darkest Mercy

The Desert Tales Manga and Novel

and many short stories in the Anthology Faerie tales and Nightmares

desert tales review faerie tales and nightmares darkest mercy radiant shadows fragile eternity ink exchange wicked lovely

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quote 2012-12-06 04:30

Lost in Fictional Worlds

I feel as if we are on a vessel moving inexorably toward some unseen destination. There is no one steering or tending the sails; only dark tides and currents carry us to their preordained destination.

p. 329 Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by Robin LaFevers

quote Robin LaFevers Grave Mercy His Fair Assassin