  Title: Soundless Author: Richelle Mead Date Read: June 2 2017 Published: November 10 2015 @ Razorbill Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ |
“For the first time since this phenomenon started happening to me, I begin to understand the power it could have and why our ancestors mourned its loss. Every sound around me - the renewed pattering of rain, the wind in the leaves - all of it suddenly has a new meaning. I can see how these sounds don't interfere with the world so much as enhance it. The scope and potential are huge. It's like having a new color to paint with.”
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“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
 Title: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Date Read: May 7 2017 Published: September 9 2014 @ Knopf Genre: Adult Dystopian Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.” |
“Walking through Harlem first thing in the morning was like being a single drop of blood inside an enormous body that was waking up. Brick and mortar, elevated train tracks, and miles of underground pipe, this city lived; day and night it thrived.”
Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends
Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen
