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This trilogy follows the story of a young woman named Karou, who is half-human and half-angel, as she navigates her complex identity and the dangerous world she lives in. The narrative explores themes of love, loss, and the struggle between good and evil, all while introducing readers to a richly detailed magical universe.
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“I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”
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“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
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“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
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“It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.”
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“I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.' 'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?' 'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.”
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“She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.”
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“It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.”
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“Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.”
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“In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.”
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“How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?”
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“He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.”
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“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.”
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“As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.”
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“You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.”
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“And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.”
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“...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.”
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“This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”
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“...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.”
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“They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.”
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“There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!”
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“The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.”
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“In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.”
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“Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?”
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“She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.”
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“Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.”
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“No, tiny violent one.”
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“Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.”
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“Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.”
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“Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.”
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“That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?”
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“A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.”
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“Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!”
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“My tiny scary friend is coming”
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“And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.”
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“And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.”
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“Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.”
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“If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.”
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“She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.”
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“Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.”
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