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"It’s a story about horrible things that happen to people, and how on earth anyone can stomach raising children in a world where doom and disaster lurk around every corner. So, no, it’s not a story about a cat. It’s just a story that starts with a cat, and it goes from there."

Should be fun...

EXTRACT CONFESSIONS SIDE-BY-SIDE (VILLAINOUS COUPLES SHARE HOBBIES)

Who knew chapter titles could be a favorite?

“Fear,” he said simply. “Your bloodline carries immense power that he couldn’t hope to control or understand. So he did what weak men always do when faced with something stronger than themselves. He tried to break it.”

"Every image of reality can be recorded as possible literature, there are no insignificant situations that do not deserve to be written down, there is only the laziness of not writing them down"

"Gort, a fan of consequence parenting." You and me both, Gort.

“You made it seem as if I have much more influence over you than I do.”

“I believe I’m the ultimate authority on the amount of influence you have over me.”

“Magic! Of course. Why didn’t I see that before? For a moment I suspected that you’d taken leave of your senses, but now I am sure of it.”

Seb, the book boyfriend that you are 🤌🏻

“Preferably someone who won’t try to stab me in my sleep, though that’s negotiable.”

This will be fun

"I was sitting in a wooden chest in a house once owned by slavers in the middle of a magical city watching a plate with a chunk of meat because someone kept leaving fish on my desk. Which of my choices had landed me here, exactly?"

"Gods damn him for looking like that. Like safety. Like warmth, the kind that would burn away the worst sort of cold."

Oh my heart

“But you must know that I see all the parts you hate and wish to hide, and I love you still.”

Theo you are the greenest flag.

"I wanted to believe that the sweet, fleeting moments life could offer were not frivolous or pointless. That even though bodies and love and homes decayed, we did not fight like mad for them so that we could have them forever. Having them for a time was enough."

Oh Imogen, my girl.

"And then, whether Imogen liked it or not, she would learn one new truth: That I was just as stubborn and determined as she was."

This book is hurting my soul already, can I just throw it in the freezer?

"I write the only way I know, meandering and circling around what hurts the most and yet cannot be changed as it shrinks into nothingness behind me."

"Sometimes you don’t need words – you just need to know someone gives a fuck."

"but I know, perhaps more than any other person, that we are each the sum of our experiences. That every pain and loss, as much as instances of joy and love, shape us into the person we are. Take those away and it unravels our very essence."

‘I never realised that being involved in a trial for ultimate power would involve such complex love lives. They kind of left that bit out of the history books, don’t you think?’

Benny stays a favorite

‘Her place?’ Kyor’s voice is a growl beside me as sparks of pure energy surge between his fingers. I have never seen him like this before. So powerful. So dangerous. ‘Her place, Holden, is wherever the fuck she decides it is.’

🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

"As I take in the Rettlings, I realise I should be listening. Getting distracted during the trials could be deadly. I need to focus."

And this is why I wouldn't survive in a romantasy book.

"His exuberance makes me smile. Was I ever so young?"

"I graduated, went to college, grew up, and learned that life wasn’t always fair. Sometimes there was no third book. No resolution no matter how many times you reread or how hard you wished for it."

"So many women, and they were all there on her canvas. They each had their pain, but standing together, side by side, they were like a steel dam. No matter what horror came for them, their sheer strength would keep them alive."

“When you’re a woman, there’s no such thing as safe—only safer.”

“I’m not here to snatch anyone.”
“Why?” The raven king’s golden eyes narrowed as he leaned closer. “Something wrong with my girl, Harald’s son?”
“What? No.” Tait’s face burned in a wash of red. “I didn’t say that.”
“So, you would snatch her?”
“No,” Tait shifted on his seat, eyes wide. “Gods.”

😄😄😄

The villain gardens with her 🤌🏻

"She figured only women would like the painting, that only women would know what it meant to be both dead and alive."

"A show of a weak man when a bold woman stumped his stupid words. That was all he was, a weak man."

“I spoke plainly of Bonekeeper. If you consider that poorly, then perhaps he should think again on his actions.”