Fiction Blindness Dimitra Nikolaidou “Sometimes you do a thing because it is the only arrow you have left in your quiver. You do it, not because you have a brilliant plan, but because if you do nothing your soul withers and dies.”
Fiction The Wardrobe Matthew Sanborn Smith "They pushed past the eighth layer of clothing. This was as deep as he’d dared go his first night in the house, once he’d realized what he had here."
Fiction Arkteia Genevieve Williams "Iphigenia had been Agamemnon’s daughter, sacrificed to and, some said, rescued by the goddess, taken to Greece and set to preside over the rituals there. Iphigenia, the name Kate had chosen."
Fiction Spellman Mathers’ Travelling Show & Zoo of Ordinary Creatures Edoardo Albert “Sure, back in England Tom would be the wonder of the age and we’d—he’d—be rich and meeting royalty and such like. But what’s a man with a donkey head in a place where wishes come true?”
Fiction HEL 266 Sara Rich Susan held the straw for the core. “You know, in the Semitic languages – Arabic, Hebrew, and Akkadian specifically – the word for tree sap is dem. It’s also the word for blood.”
Fiction Rockport Boys Megan Arkenberg "Their family trees are full of beautiful men who were hanged as witches or lost at sea, and all their houses are haunted."
