Just starting Kate Chopin‘s The Awakening and the mood is already thick.

Bran thought about it. “Can a man still be brave if he‘s afraid?”

“That is the only time a man can be brave,” his father told him.

I was a fan of the Vampire Diaries show for the first couple seasons especially. There were parts I hated in the show but it seemed like a easy light read so I picked up the first book.

I‘m honestly shook with how conceited, self-centered, and manipulative Elena is in the books, far more than in the show. I‘m not disliking the experience of reading the book but damn. If we‘re supposed to relate to Elena in anyway it‘s a miss.

He spoke of war, she thought. And she‘d spoken of love.

Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.