Personal Highlights:

• ‘A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death.’
• Unsettled heart. The fetishism of secrecy. These people understood—as I did—the back alleys of the soul, whispers and shadows, money slipping from hand to hand,...
• Very dark message to this book. ‘Why be good.’ But—this is what took hold on me last night, riding here in the car. What if—is...

Personal Highlights:

• They stabbed the great giant. Blood gushed out from Ymir’s corpse in unimaginable quantities; fountains of blood as salty as the sea and gray as...
• The three brothers made clothes for the woman and the man, to cover themselves and to keep them warm, in the chilly sea-spray on the...
• And there is the place named after its ruler: Hel, where the dead go who did not die bravely in battle.

Personal Highlights:

• Antagonism breeds extremism, and it was turning one into the zealous revolutionary and the other into an excessive advocate of caution, taking them beyond what...
• vol-au-vent

Personal Highlights:

• “There is nothing pleasant to be said about losing,” she began, “and the Obolensky boy is a pill. But, Sasha, my dear, why on earth...
• One hour later, as the Count bounced twice on his new mattress to identify the key of the bedsprings (G-sharp),
• if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.