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“Who is free, who loves another?” ❤️‍🩹

“I have loved you since before I was born, I think. I have studied you, worshipped you, lost you, mourned you. I have wept at your bier fought beneath your flag. I have killed, Una, over and over. This once, please - let me save you.” 😭😭

“If I serve anything, let it be that. If I die for anything, let it be you.” 😭❤️‍🔥

“The word *home* evoked only the sweet green smell of the woods, long gone, and sometimes another word: *Yew*, I thought, or perhaps *you*.

“But if the body remembered pain, it surely remembered pleasure, too. Perhaps your lips remembered mine, and my hands recalled the shape of yours; perhaps each time you touched me it left a subtle mark, so that my skin had become a map drawn in invisible ink, which might lead me back to you.” ❤️‍🩹
I’m savoring every word in this book. I think I will go insane.😭😩

“We had told this story so may times, you and I, and we would tell it so many more, and it would always end here, like this: with my blood on your hands and your tears on my face.” 😭😭😭

[…]“Yvanne had looked at me like that, the first time she saw me. She had needed me, and I had spent the last two decades becoming whatever she needed: her sword and her shield; her sinner, her servant, her saint; her butcher and her best beloved. I couldn’t do it any longer, not for her. But for you - I would be a hero. One last time.” 🥺

“The world might remember you as I wrote you, but I would remember you as you were: hard and strange and silent, your hands bloodied and your soul sick with it. I would remember the line between your brows. I would remember that you were not beautiful, not really, but that the sight of you struck me as a hammer strikes hot iron, reordering my very atoms.” 🥺❤️‍🔥

“Wait for me, beneath the yew tree.”

“If I couldn’t have you or heal you or save you - if I couldn’t love you - then I would make all of Dominion love you, forever and ever.” 😭

“Fate always finds you, in the end.”
I’M OBSESSED

When I tell you that I’ve been tearing up several times in these first 45 pages because of this prose and the story so far, would you believe me ?

“And above everything: A face that I knew better than my own. A face I had seen in penny papers and fine oil paintings, in terrible street theater and political cartoons and every night in my dreams. A face I had feared and coveted and envied since I was nine years old.
Later, I would wonder how I was so sure, because none of those artists had done you justice.” ❤️‍🔥

“I looked at you for so long and so well that I felt something inside me shifting, irrevocably. It was like dying or being born, or being hit very hard on the head. It was like falling in love.” ⚔️❤️‍🔥
This is going to be something really really special🥹

„Hoffnung ist eine mächtige Kraft. Manche sagen, sie wäre eine ganz eigene Art von Magie. Unbeständig, schwer zu fassen. Aber man braucht dafür nicht viel.“ ✨

„Sie hatte geglaubt, sich in ihn zu verlieben wäre so, als würde man sich in die Dunkelheit verlieben, doch jetzt glich er für sie eher einer Sternennacht: Die Sternbilder waren immer da, beständige, strahlende Fixpunkte in einer immer-schwarzen Nacht.“ 🥹🌌

„Sie wusste nicht, wie tief sie schon gefallen war, aber sie stellte sich vor, ihn zu lieben wäre so, wie sich in die Dunkelheit zu verlieben, Furcht einflößend und allumfassend und doch wunderschön, wenn die Sterne aufgingen.“ 🥹🌟

„Jeder hat die Macht, sein Schicksal zu verändern, wenn man nur tapfer genug ist, für das zu kämpfen, was man sich sehnlicher wünscht als alles andere.“ 🌟🎩🎟️🎪✨🌹🎠🪄🃏

FINALLY starting this beauty!!
This has been lying around unread for far too long
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