Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
"Once you’ve tasted pure, unadulterated love, it’s like a part of your heart’s been irradiated, burned out, in a sense. Particularly when that love, for whatever reason, is suddenly severed. For the person involved, that sort of love is both the supreme happiness and a curse."-The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Haruki... Continue Reading →
"Toru was struck by a thought: maybe Hikaru and Tamon had known each orher in another life. That was how close they seemed to be. They were like old souls who found each other, or a couple falling in love at first sight. Their bond was ironclad, their trust in each other absolute."The Boy and... Continue Reading →
"Sift the sand of every world and sort the dust of space between them, and you will find not one atom of fear, nor gram of love nor dram of hatred. Yet they are there, unseen and uncertain as the smallest quanta and just as real."EMPIRE OF SILENCE BY CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO When Empire of Silence first... Continue Reading →
"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,” he said softly, “for my crimes. I cannot go to his hell, and so he has sent a woman to torment me."Swordheart by T. Kingfisher My love of T. Kingfisher grows with every book. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
"Secrets do not stay in the dark where we put them. Some lie dormant, but others slither beneath doors, over windowsills, through the cracks in walls, out into the light where everyone can see them, poke at them, know them."The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter I decided to try out A.G. Slatter's Sourdough Universe... Continue Reading →
“The guardian is a woman, or something that looks very much like a woman, though she is inhumanly beautiful and unnaturally still. There is something in her that resembles a river itself, in that she seems both placid and restless; eternally in place, and yet constantly in motion. She doesn’t have a name, though most... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 