“When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!” ~ Brandon Sanderson, Skyward
Review: Skyward
Review: The Hate U Give
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right,” Angie Thomas
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
Book + Movie Review: Mortal Engines
“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.” ~ Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines
Review: Darius the Great is Not Okay
“Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates ‘your place was empty.’ We say it when we miss somebody. I sniffed "Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
Review: Paradise
“The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.” ~ Toni Morrison, Paradise
Review: Impostors
“Freedom has a way of destroying things,” Scott Westerfeld
Review: Water for Elephants
“Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?” ~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Team Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” ~ Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Review: Gulliver’s Travels
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.” - Jonathan Swift
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