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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)

by Sarah Adams (Goodreads Author)

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"need a palate cleanser after the suffering that was alchemised" — Jan 03, 2026 05:07PM

Jan 03, 2026 05:06PM

“I asked you because when I am not with you, Lin Caster, I feel as if some part of me has been torn away. I feel as if I am bleeding, insensible with the pain of a wound no one can see save myself. When you are with me... It is the only time I feel whole.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Ragpicker King

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“He would not beg Zoya to stay. It was not in his nature to plead with anyone, and that was not the pact they shared. They did not look to each other for comfort. They kept each other marching. They kept each other strong. So he would not find another excuse to get her talking again. He would not tell her he was afraid to be left alone with the thing he might become, and he would not ask her to leave the lamp burning, a child's bit of magic to ward off the dark.
But he was relieved when she did it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

tags: king-of-scars, nikolai-lantsov, zoya-nazyalensky

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“Altan was not lapsing when he smoked opium. No-smoking opium was the only time when he was not in pain. He had lived his entire life in perpetual pain, always longing to have another dose. She had never understood how horrendously difficult it was to be Altan Trengsin, to live under the strain of a furious god constantly screaming for destruction in the back of his mind, while an indifferent narcotic deity whispered promises in his blood.. That's why the Speerlies became addicted to opium so easily, she realized. Not because they needed it for their fire. Because for horrible god. some of them, it was the only time they could get away from their”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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