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“she began to have a conception of a power that spread like a bad feeling, like a sickness itself, seizing all minds that it touched.”

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn’t deserve it. … none of them knew she had been only a breath, a twitch, away from changing her mind.”

“you don’t yet know what i may do.”

BUT I CANT WAIT!!!! LFGGGG

now isn’t this just the most scrumptious thing i could be reading

how many talks in the woods is it going to take good LORD

i feel you holding out on me ms. deonn!

“he groans. ‘another hour at least.’ his nose scrunches up again — and he punches the button to roll down both our windows.”

catty almost-ex and almost-boyfriend selwyn? oh how FABULOUS

“…but other inheritances from vera’s line, like . . . my senses, the mesmer resistance . . . the regents’ scientists wouldn’t find those traits in legendborn blood. wouldn’t even know to look for them. god, i hope these abilities aren’t affected too. i need every defense i can get.”

tracy deonn is doing something absolutely MASTERFUL with the magic at play here. WOW.

The decreasing likelihood that the smog would lift, the years adding up to the truth that you can’t go home again, my debt growing as nothing green grew … I signed my self away.

damn she’s just like me fr

“And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, . . . it is because I know I will never do this again. But for one final night, he’s the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have—for better or worse—become what I am.”

girls with daddy issues, rise!!

“could he really do the gruesome things he does to her and believe at the same time that he’s acting out of love? is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence? outside her breath rises in a fine mist and the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same mistake.”

i’ve been shot

“at times he has the sensation that he and marriane are like figure skaters, improvising their discussions so adeptly and in such perfect synchronization that it surprises them both. she tosses herself gracefully into the air, and each time, without knowing how he’s going to do it, he catches her.”

i did not expect to be here (reading normal people) but oh, g-d, here i am