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"I think that if no one can bother to change a water filter regularly, there isn’t much hope for some grand plan." Girl, same

"It’s the kind of intimate shroud that makes you want to spill your secrets because you know the shadows will keep them and the dim light will treasure all of your truths."

“I promise, I’m far more acquainted with the evils of men than you will ever be.”

“Besides, can’t a girl run a few errands without getting hunted down in a rage?”

“My dear girl, when others cannot control you, they will seek to control how you are perceived."

"and there were few things more dangerous to a woman than an unguarded heart."

“Some of us do not have the privilege of living our life, my lord. We survive it.”

"It was so easy to find yourself doing the things in life you weren’t passionate about, to stick with them even when you didn’t want them and they hurt."

“If you ever decide to stop running and make a home . . . Make it with me.”

I'm fine...

“Because it’s her dream, and I care about her too much to not help her chase it, even if that means I won’t be there when she gets everything she’s worked for.” Kai the man that you are 🤌🏻

“I have begun to feel comforted,” he said, “by the thought of all we do not know, which is nearly everything.”

"It seems weird to complain about the person you love more than you knew your heart was capable of loving." Yeah, he's brand new at parenting 😄

“They’re not, Dad. Kids aren’t resilient. That’s something adults like to say to make themselves feel better. To pretend that kids don’t feel as deeply as adults do. But kids are everything that happens to them. They’re sponges. Everything bad, everything good. Every hurtful thing you say. Every loving one.”

"But PJ didn’t say any of that. This was Destiny’s life and her tragedy, not his. “I’m sorry,” he said instead. “That’s a shit deal you’ve been given.”"

The plot has finally decided to show up

"She’d like to say some things. All the normal things, she thinks. Sorry and thank you and I miss you and I love you, but the words fall short as they always do."

The thing is, I do this to myself. I choose to read.

"that’s the world she came from, before it all changed, but no one knows it’s changed, so while everyone else bobs about in their normal world, she’s slipped between."

"In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what’s left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person."

"They will be sad, because sad is what it is, and the sadness comes in many colours – the vibrant shock and disbelief in a few hours when she finds you, then a more muted colour for many years after that, and finally a subtle, more abstract kind of colour until I come and take them too."

Cool, cool, cool.

I love a book that makes me tear up in the 2%.

"And he—well, he was still a fool."

Couldn't agree more.

“Doesn’t appear as though the humans do subtlety particularly well, does it?”

“Erik is just waiting for a reason to lose his damn mind and slaughter Arion. He could piss crooked and the Ever King would use it as a call to war.”

This just makes me miss Bloodsinger more 🤷🏻‍♀️

"PJ didn’t really know what he believed about the afterlife or God or any of it; it had been hard to believe in a higher power after Kate died, but he also didn’t like to think that Kate’s spirit, that her soul, was gone completely."

“You’ll need something,” he said. “If you expect to be happy. My dad always said a person needs three things to be happy: something to do; someone to love; and something to look forward to.”

“Look, girl, when words and fear are pushed into your mind over and over, it becomes a truth. Magic might even shift to fit the words. Sometimes it causes our true selves to retreat to some dark place inside us.”,

“He is saying desires such as solitude for reading are of utmost importance. To better a bride’s mind for her husband, of course.”

“Gods, can you not read about something for one day.”
“That would be an awful day.”

“I do not know what kings are like in your land, but in ours, we do not silence our queens.”