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Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

 ...art is tragedy.  Art is loss. It's the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes.  It's the peeled lemon and bony fish in the corner of a Dutch still life, rotten and dead and gone. It's him lying next to you, legs tangled with yours, only to know he'll be specter in your thoughts by next month, next week, ten minutes from now.  This is what makes it art, Charlotte, and you've always understood that.  You've always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain.

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

 ***WARNING*  FREE FLOWING TRAIN OF THOUGHT RUNNING OFF THE RAILS BELOW*** Why was I thinking that a book which on the cover bares the comment from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (why in all caps?? Why no possessive 's??) "Chilling... This one is a keeper for horror fans." would be the fun-filled, humorous romp of Danny Dragonbreath or Harriet Hamsterbone?  Noooo.  While I was still harboring such expectations on page one when I read that uncle Earl owned "The Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities, and Taxidermy" - calling to mind both "Eyegore's Curiosities and Monster Museum (note - with an apostrophy) in Cawker City, Kansas (best known as home of the "Largest Ball of Twine") and the wedding/reception of my friends and neighbor's Dave and Mary (in what now must no longer exist- because I've searched for it and for it's name recorded for posterity -  but was a little white wedding chapel and taxidermist in Fayetteville NC). ...

Queen of Shadows by Sarah Maas

 "I feel like I'm one wrong move or word away from leading them to ruin.  Peopl's lives- depend on me.  There's no room for error" "You'll make mistakes.  You will make decisions and sometimes you will regret those choices.  Sometimes there won't be a right choice, just the best of several bad options." "What do I do now?"  They were gone...     "You light up the darkness." I'm not a queen.  I'm a mom with a child with special needs.  This is my life.

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah Maas

 Don't bother yourself with what-ifs.

Empire of Storms -

 "What's your favorite food?".... "Whatever keeps me alive at the moment."

Heir of Fire by Sarah Maas

 "They did not need to cheeer, or they were immortal and infinite and gloriously, wonderfully deadly." Gotta love a witch!

The Last House on Needless Street by Catrina Ward

Best part of this book - life lessons from the cat.  "...the trick to life is, if you don't like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops." "I think I should have my own TV show, and actually, it would be really fun.  I would call it CATching up with Olivia, and I would describe everything I ate that day.  I would talk all about my love and her tiger eye and her smooth stride.  I would also investigate the type and quality of naps there are, because there are no many different kinds.  Short and deep- I call that kind "the wishing well".  The very light doze, kind of half under, which can go on for hours - I call those "skateboards".  The sort you have in front of the TV when a good show is playing and you knid of take in the plot but also sleep- these I call "whisperers".  When you are being stroked to sleep and the rumble of your purr blends with the deep voice of the earth. I don't have a name for those ones yet.  But the...