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“But don’t mind me, it’s not like I know what I’m doing or anything.”

I’ve missed this snarky lil guy!!!

“I heard you plagiarized your book!” Oberhufter shouted.
“I heard you plagiarized your personality!” Hippolyta shouted in return.

absolutely brutal

oh this is SILLY romance

“I-is my fucking chicken doing a training montage?”

him: “Locke will not fall again, Grey. I swear it to you: there will be no second death.”

me: side-eyeing the title of the book nervously

“‘Why must you always sacrifice yourself, and call that love?’” OOF AND ALSO AAAAHH

“He pressed a kiss up higher, at the soft fold where her thigh met her hip. ‘Tell me to stop and I’ll stop,’ he said. ‘But if this is the last morning of our lives, I want to spend it right here.’”

gay ass found family of entirely just idiots with swords. love them

“Grace tried to remember. She could call up the memory of his scent with ease, but his face was another matter. ‘He smelled like gingerbread—?’
[…]
‘He had blue eyes,’ said Grace, nettled. ‘And . . . uh . . . hair?’”

big relatable face-blind moments here!!!!! she’s also so cute

‘What in the name of the little household gods is that?’
‘An abomination,’ said Stephen. ‘I believe the cook called it gravy.’
‘Gravy is not that colour.’
‘I did not say the cook was correct.’
‘Can we burn them at the stake?’

“Cats don’t drink cocktails.”
“Cars don’t shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.”

“I could write Mel off as a fling, or I could remember him as the man who brought me to the Channel Islands. Everyone gives you something. It’s up to you to take it and move on.”

‘Miss Tilney said, "Mr. Churchill believed no woman could be strong enough to wield such a weapon, but he is in error.”
Jonathan frowned. "It must weigh nearly twenty pounds."
“So does a year-old child, and women handle those often enough." To demonstrate, Miss Tilney took the mace in hand; though it was clearly heavy for her, she was perfectly capable of handling it.’

you tell him girl!!!

“I have corresponded with an unmarried man. How unladylike.
How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so . . . exciting.”

“You don’t treat someone like that. You don’t treat a person like that. And they’re making me do it, making me degrade her like that. We’ll get out of this, won’t dwell on it, won’t ever mention it again. But, back of our minds, it’ll always be there.”

“Go on. One of the best things about a book is that it’s always willing to wait until you return.”

obsessed w Isobelle flirting by brazenly calling Gwen’s alter ego a ‘dreamboat’ in front of people who dont know he is fake while making direct eye contact with Gwen!!!!!

“In that moment, Gwen would’ve wrested a sword from one of the guards and gone after her, if Isobelle’s eyes had demanded it of her.” gay shit!!!!!

I have literally read this book before and know what happens so why am I still bawling at the sadness and the found family 😭

“Viv held her sword in both hands, head bowed.
She’d forsworn her old life, crossing a bridge to a new land, and now knelt in its ruin.
This was the bridge burning away behind her, leaving her in a desolation.
She tossed the blade back into the ash and took the only path that remained.”

cosy reread for book club, yippee 💕

“To paraphrase one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, Winnie-the-Pooh: you don’t know you are making memories, you just know you are having fun.”

alright, here we go again

“I can long for her, and still hate her.
After all, does a moth not hate a flame, when it learns that the very thing that attracts it is the thing that will see it burn?”

“Let me tell you, there is nothing more terrifying than being attacked by the scorned equivalent of a glorified goose.”

I’m sorry, did he just say that the reason his family are ‘obsessive planners’ about christmas plans and airport arrival times is because his grandmother escaped hitler???

“I was a ‘productivity geek’. You know how some people are passionate about bodybuilding, or fashion, or rock climbing, or poetry? Productivity geeks are passionate about crossing items off their to-do lists. So it’s sort of the same, except infinitely sadder.”

I was going to post a quote here but I actually dont think I could in good conscience make any of you read what I am reading - I’m not even 20% through yet but I think I’m gonna have to dnf