Amy's Reads

“The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?”

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”

“When she doesn’t like the reality of things, she finds a reality she prefers.”

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

“The mind suffers delusions when it succumbs to the monsters it has itself created.”

“Was this how it must feel to die and return as a ghost? To see how the world moved on without you, only to find that it never even realised you were gone.”

“I liked imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked the real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”

“In a fitting example of the respect in which women are held for their strength, independence and persistence, halmang means both grandmother and goddess.”

“And you understood, finally, that there had never truly been a she or a you but only a terrible, lonely I.”

“But as my vision clears ever-so-slightly, I can tell that these aren’t monsters or demons who toy with me so. These are men. These are women.”

“It was addressed to her, one word written in a strongly slanted hand, the ink pressed hard into the soft, dirty ochre of the envelope, an intimate word. The most intimate. Her name.”

“The king did not know then that his greatest love would also be his ruination—nor that either would come in the form of a tiny, helpless human child.”

"May the odds be ever in your favour."

“I knew there was something peculiar about you,” she said. “And I mean that as the highest compliment.”

“They’d probably been watching the snowfall with glee, glad to have gotten a white Christmas this year. Better than a red one.”

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“And why is it somehow a mark against your strength to admit that there is someone, who happens to be male, worth returning to?”