delladilly replied to your post: Lines
BOWMANNNNNNNN
Not gonna lie, all my books are packed so I was going through my books tags for quotes when I found that one, which I had reblogged from you. :)
Lines
“Bowman cried too easily - everyone told him so - but what was he to do? He felt everything too much. He didn’t mean to, but when he looked at somebody else, anybody else, he found he knew what they were feeling, and all too often it was a fear or a sadness. And then he would understand what it was they were afraid of or sad about, and he would feel it, too, and he would start to cry. It was all very awkward.”
- William Nicholson, The Wind Singer
“‘You’ll find,’ he remarked gently, ‘that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong and that’s hardly worth the effort.’”
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“The Two have never answered many of my prayers, so I turn each night to the Children to keep you safe. They have been both as young as you and as old as I, so hopefully they can understand.”
- work in progress
Vegan Sweet Potato Burgers: click here for the recipe.
I’m not vegan but fuck me I would eat the hell out of that.
Look at the avocados just look at them
that awkward moment when some ginger lady who’s known you for like an hour sees right through your bullshit.
donna appreciation life
thoughtsickles replied to your post: Discoveries
aww yes so excited to read the new version! also i know nothing about publishing but i thought they liked series? cause of the multiple book potential?
:D Thanks! Actually not much has changed in the part you read (regarding my new discovery, anyway). I just put in some set-up today (after procrastinating my ass off, which I usually don’t do - preparing to move has turned me into a slug). The event in question happens early in Part II, and then will stay important all the way through the trilogy, and if I play my cards right provide a smidgeon of mystery while also impacting all four of them. Woo!
Apparently, editors like series, but agents like “stand-alones with series potential.” Which I find annoying and short-sighted, but I don’t make the rules. As far as publishers go, I think some like them and some don’t? But there are definitely a thousand ways publishing a series can go wrong. But I will save that existential crisis for another night. :)
I think maybe it says that good literature is like good chocolate –– always appropriate in a crisis. (Hey, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!) Besides, I get the feeling that Mildmay, at least, can fix most problems …
Except for his own, haha. But I like your explanation! :)
(Source: athousandswifts)
I heard about it through Jules (dingoatemybabycrazy). Her friend started reading the first one, didn’t like it but knew that Jules probably would, and gave it to her. I then proceeded to borrow Jules’s books (she has 1-3 in hardcover alskdjfalskdf) until I got my own. What about you?
I heard about it through my friend Anna (delladilly), who got it from an online rec and had to face the brunt of my judgment. I know I borrowed the first two from her, and possibly the third, though I may have started buying them by then. They definitely went pretty quickly on my “need to own so I can reread at a moment’s notice” list. :)
(Source: melthedestroyer)
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