Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of โthemโ & widen the circle of โus.