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He let his heart open, imagined the words welling spontaneously, and without quite consciously planning it, said: “When you are no longer sitting on the Lion Throne, I would like to know the man behind the Serenity. As a friend.”

*giggling kicking my feet*

“I have been showing you another aspect of myself this journey. I did not realize until just now that you have been showing me another aspect of yourself as well.”
Cliopher didn’t know what to say.

The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benevolence is that after a while you start to believe your lies. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I do not have them. Oh, no,” he added a little more softly, “it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am not.” 

wow this crashout was so valid!

the way this is written almost feels like stream of consciousness. but it may just be very random actually and badly structured? anyway, cool concept. so far.

“Thought of his lord, never failing to do his duty.
Thought of his lord, with no one to joke with him.
Thought of losing that—he could not call it friendship, could he? That implied a kind of equality, and there was no equality possible between the Sun-on-Earth and anyone else.
But call it a relationship, that was permissible.
He suppressed the wish that he dared call his Radiancy his friend.”

“I do not speak as your royina. I do not even speak as one god-touched. I speak as a woman, who has walked to the end of that road and returns to report the hazards. If you still possess half the wits you started with—and if it is indeed love you seek and not just your gratification—you will listen as a man.”
His little bow, this time, was visibly more thoughtful, his smirk wiped clean.

MOTHER!

oh boy, I was NOT expecting that 💀

“How like a man, to change from mask to mask like a player, concealing all intention, yet leave his heart out on the table, carelessly, unregarded, for all to behold.“

I'm forcing myself to go to sleep because it's really late and I'm almost dropping my Kindle, but, omfg, what a ride these last few chapters have been (quite literally) hahahahha. and who’s THAT?

“You must go home eventually.”
“I would throw myself off a precipice first, except that I would land in the arms of the gods, Whom I do not wish to see again. That escape is blocked. I must go on living. And living. And living . . .” She cut off her rising tones. “The world is ashes and the gods are a horror. Tell me, Learned, what other place is there for me to go?”

she’s a little depresh 💀

uuh, awkward…

I snorted. “I am only the way I am because of Sir Konrad’s teaching.”
“It is a curious thing, is it not, that you can be more like him than he is himself.”

“Stability breeds complacency. I am as guilty of underestimating our enemies as anyone else. When one is faced with such naked evil, there is a temptation to believe that the commonfolk will see it for what it is. In reality it is tenacious, like a weed. It alters perceptions and tolerances slowly, insidiously. It must be fought constantly.”

“‘Nema, what a mess,” Vonvalt said, sheathing his sword.
I promptly vomited on the floor.“

the trilogy in a nutshell 💀

~into the thick of it, into the thick of it. oh.~

“For better or for worse, you have been marked. I only wish I could give you some word to help you on your journey.”

o querido só querendo dormir em paz num lugar quentinho 💀

Principe Josua eu nunca duvidei de vc nem mesmo por um instante!! (talvez por uns segundos massss deu tudo certo)

“Sometimes, when loss happens, it makes you wretched, and you help others and yourself by not allowing them to see what you’ve become.”

poor Simon 💀