Welcome to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
(published 2017)
This novella about ghosts and time includes some simply stellar writing:
Patty died far away, in the big city where Jenna begged her not to go, the victim of the sadness that grew in her own body, in her own bones, until she picked up a knife as sharp as the end of the world.
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
If you’d like to participate in Thursday Quotables, it’s really simple:
- Write a Thursday Quotables post on your blog. Try to pick something from whatever you’re reading now. And please be sure to include a link back to Bookshelf Fantasies in your post (http://www.bookshelffantasies.com), if you’d be so kind!
- Add your Thursday Quotables post link in the comments section below… and I’d love it if you’d leave a comment about my quote for this week too.
- Be sure to visit other linked blogs to view their Thursday Quotables, and have fun!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
This line is making me wonder. Good choice!
The writing in the novella is just wonderful throughout!
That is really a great quote and now I have to read this book! Thanks for bringing this book to our attention. I doubt if I’ll find anything near as worthy in the book I’m presently reading – just a routine thriller.
You never know — great lines sometimes just sneak up on me out of nowhere. 🙂
I’ve just checked this out on Goodreads. Its looks like an interesting read. Have you finished the book? What did you think about it?
This Week’s Answer
I finished it yesterday, and will write something up about it this weekend. Definitely worth reading if you enjoy hauntings and ghosts! (I really enjoyed it.)
That’s a great descriptive quote! I have to check this book out! Here’s my TQ: http://moasbookshelfadventures.blogspot.se/2017/01/thursday-quotables-nowhere-but-here.html
Thanks!
Seanan is the most amazing writer. Need to get this one for sure!
She really is so, so good. Can’t wait for the sequel to Every Heart A Doorway!
Did you say ghosts? 🙂
(goes looking it up)
Yes, yes, yes… must read!