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"They have to keep it quiet because loving differently can get you harassed by the Peacekeepers, fired from jobs, arrested even. Given his own challenges, you’d think Clerk Carmine would be a champion of our love — I’m certainly supportive of his — but I guess he thinks Lenore Dove could do better."

"In fact, there was something intimidating about a girl who could pull off such a brazen performance on the heels of the mayor’s assault. And that, just after she had dropped a venomous snake down another girl’s dress. Of course, he didn’t know that it was venomous, but that was where the mind went, wasn’t it? She was terrifying, really."

Coriolanus' characterization being IMMEDIATELY present and relevant

I love that Kitay's response to every major inconvenience in his way is just to become even more inconvenient in return. Not that it's working or anything. But it's relatable.

I think I legitimately trauma blocked this scene the first time I read it, so I did not see it coming. I have no words. It snuck up on me — I decided to read some of the book during a study break and suddenly I'm just sitting here shaking.

"They would think she was crazy. It was so convenient for men
to think women, young women, were insane."

the fact that it's a TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL who has this line —

"“Maybe it’s why God made humans—to love in the colossal silence and star-spiked indifference of the universe.”"

ummm I have read this book over and over since I was nine and this is the FIRST time I've been slapped in the face by that sentence. Kathryn Lasky how did you do this

I'm back on my period-drama-mermaid obsession (I've been on it since I was 9)

“Judge, I’ve got a delivery!” Aaros shouted. “She’s loud, complex, a bit curvy—” A slap rang out, followed by a string of pained curses. “Obviously I mean the violin.”

In love with this dynamic

Genuinely want to know if either of Any Chua's daughters are still in contact with her

I'm scared this will become my next emotional attachment novel because wow I became obsessed fast

yall how was Matilda reading this book at four years old

Jesse Q. Sutanto really pulled out the stops on the homoeroticism and bloodthirst and frankly I am obsessed

and you want to be mad? be mad.
here is a plate. throw it through his window,
listen to the crack. the shatter. laugh into the night.
call yourself the sun. see, you will rise.
and are you less of a woman for this? no
what is woman?
woman is this–enduring.
listen girl, you will survive this–you will.
but what fool said you had to do it silently?
here is a tip–scream

I'm a little obsessed

"They planned until Emrys hauled up a pot from the kitchen and began whacking it with a spoon, ordering them out because dawn would come too soon."

I'm back in my aesthetic-YA-fantasy books phase because at this point the only thing getting me out of this reading slump is some angry™ teenage girls with powers and magic and kingdoms and shit

Guess what time it is

Um this was a scene that I did not sign up for

I'm disturbed and captivated at the same time

help my goodreads reading challenge has been 150 for the past four years and I've never reached it

"I pretended to play a violin, at which point I realized I had no idea how a person actually held a violin."

I actually kind of love the writing style

Oh my God the first time I read this book I was in third grade.
The nostalgia.

this book is pure chaos

Why am I crying and screaming what is this witchcraft

um excuse me where the FUCK did these feelings come from and what do I do with them

That got very twisted very fast

So I just realized that this is in fact horror and not modern fantasy

is anyone able to post topics because I've been trying and I cannot create a new topic.
- the limit is making three topics per hour but I'm still blocked after three tries when none of them have posted???
- it'll say "your topic has posted" and I can read the comment I made but reload the page and it's gone

“Why do girls like to gossip in bathrooms?” Gi Taek asks, plucking out the tomatoes in his sandwich.
“I don’t,” Angela says. “I use the restroom for a different kind of crap.”

‘Yeah. Valkyrie Vision. Anyway, this thane called you a dwarf and an elf.
I’m guessing –’ I pointed at Blitz – ‘you’re the dwarf?’
‘Typical,’ Blitz grumbled. ‘Assume I’m the dwarf because I’m short.’ ‘So you’re not the dwarf?’
He sighed. ‘No. I’m the dwarf.’

Blitz is literally three inches taller than me how is he SHORT -