“When Noam was a kid and felt picky about choking down gefilte fish on Pesach, his dad sat him down and told him the story of la pobre viejecita. Once upon a time, there was an old lady with nothing to eat but meat, fruit and sweets... and he'd flop another lump of poached fish on Noam's plate and say, "God bless us with the poverty of that poor old woman.” PovertyHunger Book:The Fever King Source: The Fever King
“When I read books, the boundary between my world and others shifted. I could imagine other realities. I envisioned the tales so clearly that it was as if I lived them.” ReadingBooks Book:A Lesson in Vengeance Source: A Lesson in Vengeance
“The problem is, I don’t have anything I want to read. I peruse the shelves, but nothing jumps out at me. I feel as if I’ve read everything—every book in the world. Every title seems like a reiteration of something that came before it, the same story regurgitated over and over.” ReadingReading Slump Book:A Lesson in Vengeance Source: A Lesson in Vengeance
“I envy her. No one in my family cares about literature at all. My mother views my love of reading with the same vague bafflement with which she viewed my former interest in running— a hobby one might reference in polite conversation, but ultimately unnecessary.” ReadingFamily Book:A Lesson in Vengeance Source: A Lesson in Vengeance
“I still feel ghosts around me: the ghosts of the five Dalloway girls who defied the boxes and coffins the world tried to put them in. The ghosts of other women who attended or worked at this school, but whose legacies were forgotten instead of deified. The ghosts of every girl who came here and felt history beneath her feet. But I'm not haunted anymore. Maybe I never was.” GhostsHauntingDark Academia Book:A Lesson in Vengeance Source: A Lesson in Vengeance
“The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.” DarknessMagicDark AcademiaDark Magic Book:A Lesson in Vengeance Source: A Lesson in Vengeance