The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.

Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat 📚🗨️

📚🗨️ “There was something embarrassing about dying as a sophomore. It just lacked dignity.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

📚🗨️ “She wanted to hide in the dark and let someone else sort it all out.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

🎮 Played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations.

I really like how they tied everything together and wrapped it all up in this one.

📚🗨️ “Maybe that was the secret truth of courage. You didn’t face danger; you just got used to it.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

My kid is 10 today. I still haven’t found the guts to write my birth story. I’m so proud of the kind, clever, funny person he’s becoming.

Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚

A re-read. I just love Leigh Bardugo’s work. So. Much.

📚🗨️ “He’d been washed up on a familiar shore, but the sea had changed him.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

📚🗨️ “You had to decide who you were willing to go to war for and who you trusted to jump into the fray for you. That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

You know what word academics in the social sciences and humanities love? Bricolage.