Can you imagine the colonized fighting on behalf of the colonizer to protect the colonizer from being colonized?

I would never be adorable and bubbling over with praise for myself and others. Instead, I was still and cold, and I had to hope that was enough.

But what do you need dignity for, when the world is ending anyway?

Bad things happen when white people discover the gifts of brown women.

My father told me once it wasn’t true that people get more conservative over time; he said they just get tired and it’s easy when you’re tired to be agreeable.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.

Irony, it’s good for your blood.

And, once that’s done, winning the peace, as they say, will be much more problematic than winning the war.

Emily Wilde, a young Oxford professor, puts her research above all else. She's logical, level-headed, and listens to her head (not her heart). While on her last research trip, Emily makes some mistakes interacting with the locals, but more than makes up for it as her research on the Hidden Ones uncovers unexpected knowledge, friendship, and love.

Alex is a twenty-year-old freshman who received a full scholarship to Yale because she can see ghosts. When things take a turn, Alex must figure out who deserves her trust and how far she’s willing to go to keep this new life that was given to her.

Good, not great. Easy read, but doesn’t stick with you after you’ve finished.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is about an unassuming man in an unassuming city in a government job devoid of all personality. But despite the dreary world, he works for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY). After seventeen years, his near-perfect performance in his role vaulted him on an assignment to an island home to some of the most magical of magical children. And it’s there that his bubble pops, and his life is changed forever.