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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
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bookshelves: fantasy, bookclub, 5-stars, brave-strong-kickass-warrior-women, e-books, fantasy-dragons, in-love-with-main-character, want-to-read-again, ya
Jul 21, 2019
bookshelves: fantasy, bookclub, 5-stars, brave-strong-kickass-warrior-women, e-books, fantasy-dragons, in-love-with-main-character, want-to-read-again, ya
Somehow I have managed to live my life without reading this masterpiece of high fantasy. Somehow....
Now that I have I wish I can time travel to 5 days ago when I haven't read it and read it again for the first time.
Isn't that always the wish when we read a book that moves us?
The prose was simple, yet so amazingly lyrical. The language used was evocative, emotional. This is a beautifully written book.
Coren was my absolute hero!!!! He was brave and valorous and honorable and strong and kind-hearted and understanding... and a ginger!! What more can a girl ask for??
Sybel at times frustrated me when she wanted to go at the world (the king) alone, or at least without Coren's help. Fearing what he would think of her. But even when he found everything out by accident, this is what he says:
I read this for book club and can anyone guess how excited I am for the discussion?????
Now that I have I wish I can time travel to 5 days ago when I haven't read it and read it again for the first time.
Isn't that always the wish when we read a book that moves us?
"I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness."
The prose was simple, yet so amazingly lyrical. The language used was evocative, emotional. This is a beautifully written book.
"You can weave your life so long— only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.”
Coren was my absolute hero!!!! He was brave and valorous and honorable and strong and kind-hearted and understanding... and a ginger!! What more can a girl ask for??
"I heard you. Sometimes, in silence, at night, I hear the voices of things beyond eyesight, like echoes of ancient songs. I heard your voice, lonely in my dreams—it woke me, so I came. You see, I know how it is when you speak a name into an empty room with no one on earth to answer to it."“
Sybel at times frustrated me when she wanted to go at the world (the king) alone, or at least without Coren's help. Fearing what he would think of her. But even when he found everything out by accident, this is what he says:
"What do you think love is—a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. “
I read this for book club and can anyone guess how excited I am for the discussion?????
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Quotes Franci Liked
“The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“What do you think love is- a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“You can weave your life so long -- only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin”
― Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“He ran from her suddenly, swift and quiet like a mountain cat among the high peeks of Eld mountain. She watched him dive in among the trees, and the autumn winds shoke suddenly at his heels. She sad down on a fallen trunk and dropped her head among the knees. A great soft warmth shiled her from the wind, and she looked up and saw into Gules Lyons quiet, golden eyes.
What is it, white one?
She knelt suddenly and flung his arms around the great mane, and burried her face against him.
I wish that I had wings and could fly and fly and never come back.
What has troubled you, Orams powerful child? What can trouble you? What can such a small one as Coren of Sirle say to touch you?
For a long moment she did not answer. And then she said, her fingers tight around the gold tangeled fur.
He has taken my heart and offered it back to me. And I thought he was harmless.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
What is it, white one?
She knelt suddenly and flung his arms around the great mane, and burried her face against him.
I wish that I had wings and could fly and fly and never come back.
What has troubled you, Orams powerful child? What can trouble you? What can such a small one as Coren of Sirle say to touch you?
For a long moment she did not answer. And then she said, her fingers tight around the gold tangeled fur.
He has taken my heart and offered it back to me. And I thought he was harmless.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“She was a sweet, warm wind in my heart, a resting place, a place of peace where I could forget so many things . . .”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Reading Progress
June 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
to-read
June 24, 2019
– Shelved
July 12, 2019
– Shelved as:
fantasy
July 16, 2019
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Started Reading
July 16, 2019
– Shelved as:
bookclub
July 16, 2019
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2.0%
July 19, 2019
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3.0%
""Into that house he eventually took a fountain girl with few words and no fear either of animals or their keeper.""
July 20, 2019
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13.0%
July 20, 2019
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45.0%
July 20, 2019
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85.0%
""You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart.""
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
e-books
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
brave-strong-kickass-warrior-women
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
5-stars
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
ya
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
want-to-read-again
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
in-love-with-main-character
July 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
fantasy-dragons
July 21, 2019
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Finished Reading
