Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The title seems familiar. I read this book in November 2019. I rated the book 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads.

"There is a girl, a girl who does not fear death
Because she has her father and her mother and her twelve hunter brothers,
A home of three floors and a barnyard farmhouse,
In the middle of the farm, an apple tree that gives love apples in the winter and summer.
In the farm there are seven grottoes,
Each and every grotto secured . . .
Death was light and slipped in through the lock."
Death and the Girl, Sephardic ballad

"We are the shepherds, we walked 'cross the mountains. We left our flocks when the new star appeared."  Johnny Cash

'The crazier the victima, the closer to God.'

'It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.'

'Love is a shared delusion
Two people reciting the same spell.'

'People who can't be bothered by manners pretend to be amused by them.'

'Have power on this dark land to lighten it, and power on this dead world to make it live.'

'Cautious was helpful, paranoid was just another word for distracted.'

'I let you die. To save myself, I let you die. That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.'

'Why do you think they built so many churches here? Somehow the men and women of this city knew: Their streets were home to other gods.'

'Peace was like any high. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever. Only two things kept you safe: money and power.'
That is very sad, and very true.

'There's no doorway the devil doesn't know. He's always waiting to stick his foot in.'

'The magic of this place and the blood shed to retain it is all that stands between the city and the end.'

"While the Gardens of Eden maybe closed, Hell is always open." Ladino saying



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