“but I shouldn’t have allowed my fear to make me cruel. That was a sin, and I’m sorry.” “You were only doing what you thought was right.” “Which d“but I shouldn’t have allowed my fear to make me cruel. That was a sin, and I’m sorry.” “You were only doing what you thought was right.” “Which doesn’t mean much if I was wrong,”
“Our mouths can no longer make words our throats cannot make sound but still we reach out. The living are so warm. Have you seen what has Outstanding.
“Our mouths can no longer make words our throats cannot make sound but still we reach out. The living are so warm. Have you seen what has been done to us? Do you understand? Do you feel it the way we felt it? Please say you do please”
This book was great; the characters, the concepts and magic system, the ambiance, but above all the writing.
“That is not self-betrayal. That is self-preservation.”
Being in Silas head this whole time and hearing all his thoughts about not only his own identity but women in general, and his interactions with the girls ended up being one of the best showcases about girlhood I’ve ever read. So thank you Andrew, for this.
“ I love women as men are expected to, but the way only one who has ever experienced womanhood can.”
I won’t write down a whole essay about the kinship between women and trans men cause this is just a quick silly review, but I think he put it into words so beautifully: having experienced what womanhood is, performed, imposed, knowing what it’s like to have the world see you this way, makes them have a level of empathy that cannot be learned any other way but by having been at the receiving end of this bullshit.
At the end of the day, we all know who the real enemy is. Cis men. Mostly from England.
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“How is that fair? How am I a bad person for not knowing things? I was a kid. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I didn’t understand.”
Ellen when someone else could leave before her
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Silas as soon as Daphne introduces herself
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“Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be?”
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“My reflection is not my own. It is more a sculpture, an artist’s creation, than something that actually exists. It is something my parents would have commissioned to replace me.”
When the victim becomes an abuser by proxy, the current victim does now owe them understanding nor patience
Back at my thing: -loml -seven -Cornelia Street -mad woman -Robin -Timeless
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Also, a spoiler for the best death in a historical This was outstanding.
Back at my thing: -loml -seven -Cornelia Street -mad woman -Robin -Timeless
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Also, a spoiler for the best death in a historical novel to ever exist:
“Everyone’s voices are far away, and I cannot do anything except stare. It’s a rose, deep red, its head blossoming out of the major’s mouth. William rushes over, slamming him on the back to try to dislodge the flower. But the thorns are dug in deep, and it will not budge. Blood is pouring forth from the major’s mouth now, and he falls to the floor, his body stiff and jerky as he convulses. William finally gets purchase on the flower and is able to pull it out, but not without tearing at the flesh of the major’s tongue and throat. The major screams in agony. He will never tell another lie again.”...more
Ooh, Miss Taylor Swift, the album you could write about this one...
“But this girl, this Carmilla… she undid all my domestication” I want to take a momeOoh, Miss Taylor Swift, the album you could write about this one...
“But this girl, this Carmilla… she undid all my domestication” I want to take a moment to convince every bi girl and lesbian reading this review to pick this book up, and I'll start with a few quotes to set the mood.
“I wanted nothing more than to be the voyeuristic ghost in the room when she read those poems in her bed at night.” [image]
“every inch the creature out of myth in her platform shoes”
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“Can I confess that I loved it? I loved getting under her skin. I loved knowing that, if I tried hard enough, my words could pierce the armor of her popularity and her persona and disturb something inside her”
“ I worked myself into a fever over her, hunched over my typewriter in my dorm room while my tea went cold on my bedside table”
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“I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. ”
“What was Carmilla when she wasn’t safely trapped behind the bars of one of my poems?” [image] [image]...more
I don't talk about this one enough. It's one of my favorite gothic-romance-spooky-ghost-weird-families storiesI don't talk about this one enough. It's one of my favorite gothic-romance-spooky-ghost-weird-families stories...more
Flabbergasted. This is your reminder to go back to that one book you put down some time ago but didn't truly want to DNF
"I knew the gift we had broughFlabbergasted. This is your reminder to go back to that one book you put down some time ago but didn't truly want to DNF
"I knew the gift we had brought him was not a gift of words or knowledge, but of companionship. We would never leave him. He would never leave us."...more
gold rush + Dear John. I'll never emotionally recover from this.
This is a beautiful, standalone, fantasy retelling of the Phantom of the Opera that wigold rush + Dear John. I'll never emotionally recover from this.
This is a beautiful, standalone, fantasy retelling of the Phantom of the Opera that will leave you staring out the window just thinking about these sweet, poor, wonderful characters. Pick it up, please!...more
I can't form coherent sentences because I happen to only be eloquent when I have to talk shit. But I'mYou guys don't understand... I'm obsessed
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I can't form coherent sentences because I happen to only be eloquent when I have to talk shit. But I'm done hating! Today it's love.. I... love today.
''Bury my bones deep, that I might feel the flames of Hell -Last words of Margery Lemont, recorded by those present at her burial''
This is everything I've ever wanted from dark academia, hell, everything I've ever wanted in a book. This is what I wanted The Secret History to feel like. Victoria Lee gave me everything and managed to give the world a wonderful book with no male characters.
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From this point I guess you could consider these as light spoilers (light because they're totally out of context) but I have to share my thought process in the form of pictures I've been saving from Twitter from the past years.
Me as soon as we were told that E was practising her forgery skills
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The fact that we had an unreliable narrator makes this book even better for me. Maybe that's the main reason I loved it so much. But just remember: take your meds, kiddos! No matter how much you think you don't need to, If you start feeling like you're being haunted by your ex that cannot mean anything good for your sweet pretty brain. Of course, you could just blame it on the witches. To each their own.
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From now on, you can probably find me sitting on my bed at 3am thinking about Felicity and how I would like to start a formal petition to add her to our ''Good For Her'' canon.
I'll write something better and actually helpful to those looking into reading this book later, when my will to live comes back from the grave. [image]...more
