“The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that’s one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person’s mouth. When you know they’ll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.”
The 6th volume and this time tons of trolls, revelations, and a few moments that brought tears to my eyes.
“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don’t you?”
Een jongen, een erfenis, testen, en mysterieuze mensen die hem proberen tegen te houden. Zal Mattias uitvinden wat er aan de hand is?
A striking portrait took center stage. The subject was a lovely golden-haired woman in a man’s jacket; she peered warily at the viewer. He wasn’t ordinarily into figurative art, but it made him feel things in his parts. Which parts he hadn’t worked out yet. Multi-part feelings.
