#book line

[sweattyspaghetti]

And look where that got him.

[academia-cafe]

Awaiting the moment where someone approaches me at a library and says, "You were missing from my soul, and now, I have finally found you."

[caramelcuppaccino]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

[yesireadforfun]

It never came. There were extensive searches, questions and appeals, but despite the best efforts of all the detectives and all the town's men, her head was never found, and the girl in the woods was never put together again.

The Chalk Man

I’ve never really read a horror book like this before. I read this and loved how its basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, just a lot creepier. 

[styrofauxm]

The absolute genius of this line

First off, if you haven’t read Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, don’t read this. Everything, including the character names can be a spoiler, and it’s not the kind of book where you want anything spoiled. Also, it’s a really good book and I would give more reasons to read it than that, but spoilers.

Next, just...this line. It just lives in my mind at all times. it hasn’t left since I read it a month ago. I don’t have the exact right words to describe how amazing it is, and it took me a month to have any. (Other frustrated “how do I explain this?” noises)

“’Stockholm’ can also be a syndrome, of course.”

157 pages of buildup to a line (and preceding passage) so deeply, profoundly perfect that I cannot properly explain how it makes me feel. It’s so good that it was crushing.

How is it even possible to be surprised by a line that you half-expected (more like 1/8 but still) after the first hundred or so pages? I don’t know, but it is.

I just had to get this out of my head. Like I said, it’s been living there for a month at this point, and I needed to share it.

[nancyloumm]

honest-malec replied to your post “I knew there was something I wanted to ask before I started on my next...”

I still love that in book canon Magnus referred to toddler Alec as a “repellent brat”

Yes, if Magnus only knew, he wouldn’t have been so harsh on the baby. 

[helloimabooklover]

...to have been loved so deeply, even though that person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling)