This book is so damn quotable!

“Very pretty, vampire. But truth is a sharper knife. Truth is, most men write songs so they can hear themselves sing. And the rest sing not for the song, but for the applause at the end. You know what most men don’t do enough of?” “Tell me, Silversaint.” “They don’t shut the fuck up. They don’t just sit and listen. It’s in silence we know ourselves, vampire. It’s in stillness we hear the questions that truly matter, scratching like baby birds on the eggshells of our eyes. Who am I? What do I want? What have I become? Truth is, the questions you hear in the quiet are always the most terrifying, because most people never take the time to listen to the answers. They dance. And they sing. And they fight. And they fuck. And they drown, filling their gullets with piss and their lungs with smoke and their heads with shit so they never have to learn the truth of who the fuck they are. Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”

What's your weird/unhinge reading or bookish habits?

let me just preface that most of my friends' first impression of me are weird and a quiet one. They're wrong on the latter of course cause I was almost always reading when they'll first see me. Anyway, my weird bookish habit is when I take a break from reading a book, I'll read a book. That mostly will be reading children or novella like Roald Dahl's or RL Stine's Goosebumps books. When I'm really reading, I read up to 4 books simultaneously cause I take a break in between those books haha. And the break I mentioned is when I want to take a break from my 4 current reads

Lot of world building here 😵‍💫

I feel like I'm being so unserious rn. I find this prologue is really really funny 😭

When the cat meowed (I'm listening to the book so I'm not sure how they spell the cat's name) it was apparently a convincing meow because both of my cats are currently looking for the cat. 😂

So many songs. 👀 And what's with all the fat shaming on poor Bombur? 😆