📚🗨️ “She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

📚🗨️ “Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

🎧🗨️ “We don’t need to feel good to feel magical.” Lindsay Mack, “MONTHLY MEDICINE: October is Magic as Refuge,” Tarot for the Wild Soul

📚🗨️ “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚

This is a re-read, because when I tried to read the third in the trilogy, Dead Beat, I realized I couldn’t remember much that happened in the other two. Leigh Bardugo is so good at the job.

📚🗨️ “I want to live to grow old… I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.” Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

🔖💀 Read Here Stands Loss: Lessons From Victorian Mourning Culture.

🔖💀 Read What Happens When Death Walks Into the Classroom?.

🔖💀 Read Why Death Deserves Its Own Beat.

🔖💀 Read ‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home by Stephanie Wood (The Guardian).