# Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Author:: V. E. Schwab
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## Highlights
> “Careful. In nature, beauty is a warning. The pretty ones are often poisonous.” ([Location 169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=169))
> But María has known, all her life, that she is not meant for common paths, for humble houses and modest men. If she must walk a woman’s road, then it will take her somewhere new. ([Location 227](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=227))
> As if she did not see the hunger in his eyes and know that she could use it. By then she had spent nearly a year honing her gaze on the pilgrims passing through, balancing on that knife’s edge between too brazen and too shy. She had learned when to hold a look, and when to drop it. When to let a smile flicker like light on her lips, and when to bow her head. When to be the predator, and when to play the part of prey. And that day, in the shadow of the church, she’d played it perfectly, bold enough to catch his eyes, chaste enough to stay his hand. ([Location 233](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=233))
> They don’t so much tangle up as fold together, arm on arm, ribs on ribs, a girl and her shadow, or a shadow and its light, and she’s heard a hundred songs and sayings about how the right person can make the whole world disappear, but the world is still there, raging around them, only it’s background noise, it’s set dressing, and for once in her life she is standing center stage, performing for an audience of one, this violet girl. ([Location 446](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=446))
> Jealousy runs like gooseflesh over María’s skin. ([Location 1582](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=1582))
> “Bury my bones in the midnight soil,” he begins, infusing the words with the air of theater. “Plant them shallow and water them deep. And in my place will grow a feral rose.” He leans down to Renata and cups her face, running a thumb across her bottom lip. “Soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.” ([Location 2305](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D26CZWFD&location=2305))