From Randal Jarrell's : "Fly by Night" illustration by Maurice Sendak, 1976

i am in desperate need of a frances hardinge fandom, please more people need to read those books

Second round, sixteenth fight

Quote number 65 :

"Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing that Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone."

-Ponyboy Curtis, The Outsiders

VS

Quote number 66 :

I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

-Mosca Mye, Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge

— I'm a nerd too!

— Really? What kind?

— Marine biology. It's a private passion.

Rush - Fly By Night (1975)

Rush "Fly by Night"

‘But in the name of the most holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?’ Because I’d been hoarding words for years, buying them from peddlers and carving them secretly on to bits of bark so I wouldn’t forget them, and then he turned up using words like ‘epiphany’ and ‘amaranth’. Because I heard him talking in the marketplace, laying out sentences like a merchant rolling out rich silks. Because he made words and ideas dance like flames and something that was damp and dying came alive in my mind, the way it hadn’t since they burned my father’s books. Because he walked into Chough with stories from exciting places tangled around him like maypole streamers… Mosca shrugged. ‘He’s got a way with words.’

-Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge

4:14 PM EDT October 30, 2023:

Rush - "Anthem" From the album Fly by Night (February 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Bad Politics

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no thoughts, just all the musicals where act two doesn't exist

Behold

Alternative titles for Frances Hardinge books

A face like glass - an empath plays among us in a cave

Gullstruck island - if dissociation was a superpower

A skinful of shadows - and you thought your family was weird

The cuckoo song - puberty gone wrong (feat. sister bonding time as well as “are my tears supposed to be cobwebs??”)

Deeplight - TIFU by resurrecting my bestie with a sea god’s heart and now he’s acting weird

Fly by night - a girl, her goose, and a professional liar take down a city

Twilight robbery - a girl, her goose, and a professional liar take down another city

The lie tree - daddy issues meets sexism in this thrilling murder mystery

Series info...

Book 1: Fly by Night

Book 2: Fly Trap

First round, thirty second fight

Quote number 66 : 

I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

-Mosca Mye, Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge

VS

Quote number 67 : 

The heart of being a radical isn't knowing all the right books, it isn't about kings over the sea or the parliament over in the capital. It's... looking at the world around you and seeing the things that make you sick to the stomach with anger. The things there's no point making a fuss about because that's just the way the world is, and always was and always will be. And then it means getting good and angry about it anyway, and kickin' up a hurricane. Because nothing is writ across the sky to say the world must be that way. A tree can grow two hundred years, and look like it'll last a thousand more--but when the lightning strikes at last, it burns.

-Mosca Mye, Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge