“she was tough. a farm girl. and she wasn‘t about to be killed by a pathetic boy with a stupid knife.”

"Perhaps that is how all men love. More with their eyes than with their hearts."

when you're reading sex scenes at the doctor's office 😳

"We‘re not just going on one of our normal expeditions, like in the Glacier," Lirael explained. "I have to find a
man—"
"Good!" interrupted the Dog, leaping up to lick her exuberantly. "Time you were bred."

“There‘s this magical place,” he says with mock solemnity, “called a library—I don‘t know if you‘ve ever heard of it, but they have books, and also newspapers, and back issues of newspapers . . .”

"I know that his sudden interest in me is fleeting; that he has probably already been out with all the pretty, popular girls and I am what's left over, now that he's noticed I exist. But he has noticed I exist. And that's enough for now."

"I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind."

i might be a little excited for nekoma to show up in the manga ☺️

airplane reread before #goldenhand comes out