Tak! quoted The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall (Mkalis Cycle, #1)
She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline.
— The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall (Mkalis Cycle, #1)
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She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline.
— The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall (Mkalis Cycle, #1)
While the sisters of the Our Lady of Impossible Constellations argued themselves in circles, the Reverend Mother sat silently in her chair at the head of the chapel as she always did, listening to the arguments twist and double back on themselves.
— Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)
The first time Isabel heard a voice in her head, she’d tried to talk back.
— The Colours of Death by Patricia Marques (Inspector Reis, #1)
Dr. Bharadwaj told me once that she thought I hated planets because of the whole thing with being considered expendable and the possibility of being abandoned. I told her it was because planets were boring.
— System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Basit Deniau's greatest architectural triumph is the house he died in.
— Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Now, standing in front of the tower, it was far too real.
— The Warden by Daniel M. Ford (The Warden, #1)
Her name was Dumai, from an ancient word for a dream that ends too soon.
— A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
I’m really not supposed to be doing this, but a girl’s gotta get paid.
Raindrops slapped the cowl of Rafe’s cloak as he followed Jassa through the trees.
— Viscera by Gabriel Squailia
Stella Wallace met her family’s god when she was nine years old.
— Revelator by Daryl Gregory
The war had begun long before we arrived because war was their way of life.
Onna Gebowa had always liked numbers.
I was standing on a stranger’s doorstep and wishing my feet were nailed to the ground.