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Ronan

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Howl truly is the man of all time. He’s a playboy. He’s a malewife. He fell in love with a ninety year old woman. He’s a rugby player. He smells like hyacinths. He’s not a natural blond. When dying his hair went slightly wrong, he filled his home with slime. He has a PhD. He’s a wizard. He found a way to another universe and he told absolutely nobody about it. He makes video games about the magical universe for his nephews. He can’t play the guitar. He always takes a guitar with him when he’s trying to seduce a woman. He’s a self-proclaimed coward. He got drunk to trick himself into doing something dangerous. He overcharges for his services to rich people. He undercharges for his services to poor people. A woman invaded his home and declared herself his cleaning lady and he just let her stay. He loves spiders. He lies about his surname to everyone, including royalty. The true spelling of his first name is Howell, but we don’t find out until halfway through the book because the POV character thinks it’s spelled Howl. He’s even Welsh.

Night Watch always makes me cry.

It's about reliving trauma.

It's about longing for a home that may already be lost.

It's about being the light in the dark and a sanctuary in the chaos.

It's about a cigar case as a symbol for hope.

It's about the inevitability of tragedy.

It's about a hardboiled egg on a gravestone.

It's about lilacs.

its about this

a family can be a telegraphist who dreams of playing the piano, a clairvoyant watchmaker, a mechanical clockwork octopus, and an orphan factory girl named after a number

Grace and literally everyone who knows Mori being baffled by him living with Thaniel because he is so ordinary and mundane for a genius like Mori whereas Thaniel being one of the only people who can surprise Mori and the one he finds fascinating