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“Aila completed and filed the (frankly excessive) purchase order paperwork for a new refrigerator,”

Too real

“It had, she supposed, been less than eight hours since she sent her request. And most of those hours had been during the middle of the night. She could be patient.”

Sigo

Unless I’m really bad at Spanish I think this book narrates in 2nd person pov

“I always thought the way he wrote his o’s looked funny. They were eight-point stars: North Stars.”

Nuh uhh this is too much

“I could see was the sour expression on the king’s face. If he wanted to play a game with my character, then I was prepared to answer in turn.”

There we go!!

“On the contrary, you must take them. It’s a gift, and it’s tradition that you wear them in the Convicting.”

CONVICTION WOODS?!?

«En esa misma dinámica cayó la cinematografía estadounidense.»

Pedí recomendaciones sobre historia de España al departamento de historia. Adrià me trajo este libro al colegio para que lo leyera. Esta primera cita me hizo reír a carcajadas.

“[…] I need the fame more than I need the love.”

Again so real 🫶

“I’d never thought of myself as temperamental, but apparently I was.”

Me

“By obtaining a comfy life in a beautiful house, Gregory Illéa had robbed most of the country of its ability to ever attempt to have the very same thing.”

Repeat ad nauseam ad infinitum

“IT WAS MONDAY NIGHT. OR Tuesday morning. It was so late, it was hard to tell.”

This is why animal crossing time (new day starts at 5:00 AM) is supreme

Why is Italy allowed to be independent but we’re cursed with another abomination like “Swendway”

“America, honey, he’s the prince. He’s probably been busy passing legislation or something like that.”

Lmao @ a prince “passing” legislation

Will be losing a star for calling the what I can only assume are the combined countries of Honduras and Nicaragua “Honduraga”

“According to her, it was about Maxon needing to find someone who actually looked regal and photographed well with him, someone who would look nice on a stamp.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Is it really like that?” he asked.
“What?”
“Out there . . . does that happen? Are people hungry like that a lot?”

Will the prince learn abt class consciousness? Time will tell

“Was I the only one who saw how flawed I was?”

Mood

“I’m not some charity case, America. I’m a man. I’m supposed to be a provider.”

Store brand Gale stfu

“America?”
“Yes?” I whispered.
“Are you going to enter the Selection?”

Her name is NOT America I stg

Just realized this book has a glossary…

«She held her arms closer to herself. “You have no idea what they’ve put me through.”»

Some detail would be elucidating.

«”It will devour you, the metaphysical before the physical.”
The words echoed from the beast as it laughed at me»

Metaphysics is when uhhhhhh

So there’s a magical city that chooses to isolate itself(?) but has a library of “unaltered knowledge” that could dispel the entire Scorpio code? That’s a stretch. They better have a good reason to hide away.