Teaser Tuesday: Her Dark Curiosity, The Killing Woods, Need, & The Alchemist


Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.


The houses grew from stately to palatial as my boots echoed on the sidewalk. Twelve-foot-high Christmas trees studded with tiny candles shone behind tall windows, and heavy fir garlands framed every doorway.

~ Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman's Daughter #2) by Megan Shepherd, Kindle Location 108 (ARC)




i feel as bare and stripped as the trees in front of us, as if i'm losing everything that once made me who i am. i watch the wind push a tree so far backward it's as if the trunk should snap. Another tree curves forward into a tight fist. The whole of Darkwood is churning, mixing up like a brew.

~ The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher, Kindle Location 1424 (ARC)




I used to be the type of person who was always in motion, always doing things, writing letters, running through the streets, laughing with my friends, moving. Always forward. Moving. Then I got stuck. My dad died and the only words I hear are death, deadly, stillness. To never move. No forward. No backward. Just stuck. Gone forever, like my dad, a blank screen on the computer, an old photograph in the hall with no spirit in it, an ice patch on a road to nowhere, nothing. Just gone.

~ Need by Carrie Jones, pg. 62




When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what other want them to be, the other become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

~ The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, pg. 16


Comments

  1. OOh nice teasers all around! All were new to me!

    Here's my Tuesday Post

    Have a GREAT day!

    Old Follower :)

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  2. I just bought The Alchemist for like 2 bucks on Amazon yesterday! :-)

    Happy Christmas Larks!

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  3. fredamans, you will LOVE it! A quick little read full of lots of good literary stuff and a protagonist I adore!

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