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Blood and Salt

by Kim Liggett · 2015

Romeo and Juliet meets Children of the Corn in this one-of-a-kind romantic horror. “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” These are the… more

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THEY SAY THE FIRST STEP is the hardest. But it’s really the third—when you’re too far in to turn back and not far enough to completely commit.
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When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in - blood and salt.
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It's good to be afraid," I said. "It means you still have something to live for.
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Birini sevmek savunmasız hale gelmek demektir. Herhangi bir şeyi sevdiğinizde er ya da geç kalbiniz bükülecek ve muhtemelen kırılıp paramparça olacaktır. Kalbinizin kırılmasını engellemek istiyorsanız onu hiç kimseye vermeyin... Bencilliğinizin tabutunda ya da kefeninde saklayın onu. O güvenli, karanlık, tekdüze ve havasız tabutta... Kırılmayacaktır artık; çünkü kırılmaz, içine girilmez ve ıslah edilemez olacaktır.
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I didn't even like changing clothes for gym. Being bathed by a creepy cult was not on my favorite-things-to-do-list.
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We all have good and evil in our blood, what we do with it is up to us.
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my mind was elsewhere, drawn to that tiny slice of twilight between nightmare and dreams.
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Romeo and Juliet meets Children of the Corn in this one-of-a-kind romantic horror. “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” These are the last words Ash Larkin hears before her mother returns to the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But when Ash follows her to Quivira, Kansas, something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love and murder, alchemy and immortality. Charming traditions soon give way to a string of gruesome deaths, and Ash feels drawn to Dane, a forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash must fight not only to save her mother, but herself—and discover the t

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First published
2015
Genre
Horror
Goodreads rating
3.53 (4k ratings)

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