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“I see you intend to make your interest in me into my problem.”

absolutely savage, get him girl

I need a list of characters I am so LOST

what the fuck is up with the fish!?!!!

“I found all sorts of paper in my office […]. I probably would’ve found a bullet journal if I looked long enough.”

the modern day references are killing me

‘“I’m capable—“
“Three hours after we met, you sold yourself into slavery and then died.”
Well, yes, it sounded bad when he put it that way.’

starting this for you sashi uwu

“You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! […] it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

“It’s pretty here. I wouldn’t have imagined I’d say that about a place like this, but—“
“Yes, it is. It is. Dying things often are.”
“That’s a little macabre.”
“Do you think so? Hmm. I disagree. I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”

“I am made of metal and numbers; you are made of water and genes. But we are each something more than that. And we can’t define what that something more is simply by our raw components.”

cosy reread time yippee!

“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.”