Status Updates From Flowers from the Storm

HEHEEEE

Durham and Fane are the truest friends. “Then, old man, I’d heartily advise you not to purchase a paper.”

I know what’s coming and I’m already crying.

I am once again saying WHAT DOST THOU KNOW OF GOOD AND RIGHT

I KNOW… YOU

yeah, I remember you. Forgot it occurred at this particular moment, but well, we all have a bedrock and Christian is sitting in it so whatever

AND SHE WAITED FOR HIM IN THE FOYER FOR HOURS GUYS I CANT MAKE THIS UP

Oh HEY I forgot he tricked her — I am once again standing under an anvil hung by one of Durham’s blond little hairs and waiting for it to crush me

Book so good the consummation scene made me cry

I fear the original cover actually did occur in the book — I just didn’t remember he was half dressed, I was censoring my memory of the moment

“The duke was a dark figure in the freezing fog, a ghost from another century in his long tailed velvet wedding clothes, human only when he looked back to see that she was there.”

My point stands, he’s so goth girl

I have my own contempts. That if Christian were not a duke, if he had no money or power or name, no one would have helped him. Maybe… maybe Maddy, if she’d know him. Maybe, if he’d been kind to her father, if he worked on the docks and knew the math the way her father did—if somehow he’d found education. Maybe. But no one else would have.

“He didn’t reckon that God owed him anything. He reckoned that he’d had it all, and wasted it. Burning lakes and howling fiends had just never seemed that convincing, perils hardly fit to frighten naughty children. He turned over, staring up at darkness. Damned… having found out now what hell was really like.”

I think about this scene in the dressing room at least once a month. This book needs a movie NOW

Jervaulx is one of the girls — longing for the medieval silhouette of his country castle, seeping in rage and contempt and longing, you know how it is

Throwing up crying and they aren’t even in London yet —

“ But Maddy knew. She wasn’t good. She was tied to the earth and the devil and a man, and she was not good at all.”

OH THIS IS WHY I LOVE FATHER TIMMS OH MY GOD

“Friend.” God they speak the same language. The only language he has now.

Just registered that he understands her bonnet to be a sugar scoop OKAY

His fury. Is so palpable.