

It was better to be done with it and be gone” (99).ġ5.

I was sure, as I was led away, I would be better off without it. Ever since I’d been old enough to know about Virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull’s-eye painted on my head in rouge. Keeping it was like having to grip the knife by the blade and defend yourself with the hilt. “It was such a hard thing, this virtue, it seemed to me. To save you the time, I decided to go with only two from one particularly lovely book called The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee: How do I pick just one!? This year I actually started marking and typing up some of my favorite quotes from books, so this question actually opens a whole enormous slew of quotes. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2016? Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2016 to finally read?ġ4. Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faberġ3.The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.Most beautifully written book read in 2016? Kaz/Jesper from Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugoġ1.Rhysand from A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J.Mary Boleyn from The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.

Lila Bard from A Gathering of Shadows by V.
