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So so gripping, so far! I can't put it down. Whilst I loathed the miscommunication and arguing between Violet & Xaden in the first part, the storyline & other character dynamics really make up for it... As well as Vi & Xaden's inevitable make-up!

Just brilliant. I’ve loved every chapter of it and I wasn’t expecting to love it so much!

1) i don’t know why i didn’t read soc any sooner. i’m absolutely obsessed
2) kaz and inej’s povs>>>
3) INEJ <3 absolute badass
4) i’m in love with leigh bardugo’s writing

looooved the first half! but if i don't see bilbo getting his second breakfast by the end of the book i will riot 😤 #justiceforbilbo

“If there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?’

"Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered - that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine how things were before."

‘None of them were easy or soft or simple. They were like me, nursing hurts and hidden wounds, all broken in different ways. We didn’t quite fit together. We had edges so jagged we cut each other sometimes, but as I curled up on my side, the warmth of the fire at my back, I felt a rush of gratitude so sweet it made my throat ache... Keeping them close was a luxury I would pay for. Now I had more to lose.’

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.” - Baghra

‘David furrowed his brow. “I... I don’t understand half of what goes on around me. I don’t get jokes or sunsets or poetry, but I know metal.” His fingers flexed unconsciously as if he were physically grasping for words. “Beauty was your armour. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”’

“Frodo looked down at the body with pity and horror, for as he looked it seemed that long years of death were suddenly revealed in it, and it shrank, and the shrivelled face became rags of skin upon a hideous skull. Lifting up the skirt of the dirty cloak that sprawled beside it, he covered it over, and turned away.”

“He is fallen, and his cure is beyond us; but I would still spare him, in the hope that he may find it.” - Frodo.

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” - Frodo.

“Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,” said Merry. “We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.”
“Not to me,” said Frodo. “To me it feels more like falling asleep again.”

“I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle it’s affairs yourselves; this is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.”

“You should know that above all I hate the caging of living things, and I will not keep even such creatures as these caged beyond great need. A snake without fangs may crawl where he will.” - Treebeard.

This book is BEAUTIFUL
Stunning writing, I can’t put it down and I need to savour every word of it!!

‘Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.’

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”

“At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire.”

"I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera."

It was one of those days that I didn't mind going to school because the weather was so pretty. The sky was overcast with clouds, and the air felt like a warm bath. I don't think I ever felt that clean before.. I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

"Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"I have finished To Kill A Mockingbird. It is now my favourite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book."

“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of misery and shadow.”

“I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me we don’t belong together.”

"It's always just you and me, Alina." - Mal