“They came for Manchuria first. They will come for Shanghai next, swallow up the coastal city where they have already been allowed land and law. The empire across the sea is small. And when this is an age of expansion, they will claim that invasion must be performed in self-defense, that it is a necessity while their people grow hungrier, a population with mouths to feed and feet to plant.”
Read More“That’s ridiculous—I would never kick him onto the sofa,” Juliette replied. “If he ever angers me, a better punishment would be for him to continue sleeping next to me, feeling the power of my wrath.”
Read MoreThe rest of us have to keep racing along the hamster wheel of relevance.
Read MoreThe world is changing, and the more penitent humans there are, the less it’s “socially acceptable” to acknowledge the existence of magic.
Read MoreSo Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she’d found it had devoured her, too.
Read MoreIt’s a time of rest, too. And a time to reflect on the darkness—how it lets the light shine.
Read MoreMy friends—they had gone to war and back and had not found it worthy of glorification, had not let its memory become rose-tinted in the centuries following.
Read MoreWhen you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
Read MoreYou don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend.
Read MoreDoubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness
Read MoreMen find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.
Read MoreA Most Agreeable Murder feels as if Bridgerton and Agatha Christie came together, with a sprinkling of Twilight, and made a book.
Read MoreSometimes it’s better to be happy than right.
Read MoreIf you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.
Read MoreWords are our tools of resurrection.
Read MoreWhat if we could handle the hard things better if we soaked up magic and wonder the rest of the time?
Read MoreWasting talent like yours is like burning a pile of money in front of a poorhouse. It’s cruel and it stinks.
Read MoreHearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.
Read MoreAnd, once that’s done, winning the peace, as they say, will be much more problematic than winning the war.
Read MoreMy young friend here is using a dull knife when a sharp one would be better.
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