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Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to.

"Tears welled in my eyes. Perhaps, I thought, if I do not blink, they will not spill. Perhaps if I sat very still long enough, somehow my eyes would reabsorb the tears."

<< "My dear Jek, you've seen him. No one could spoil his face. Not for me." A pretty little sigh.>>

FAGGOT ALLEGATIONS GOING CRAZY?

"i do not know if it is conceit that always turns my thoughts to my own life, or if my writing is my own pathetic effort to explain my life to myself."

"Then I was back in the horrid confines of my miserable little body. It ached, it was cold and damaged, old damage, new damage, it had never worked that well in the first place, and worst of all, it not have enough of anything. It was riddled with wants and great gaping needs. In here, i had never had, I would never have, enough love or regard or--"

"No one is invulnerable to me if I choose to enchant them. No one but you, that is. [...] But there is no time for me to mourn that." #whatdatmean 🤔

"I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home."

"Peace but waited for me to give myself up to it. The fault was in me that I held back from it."

"Perhaps the hardest part of possessing it is witnessing so completely the casual cruelty of humans. Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have towards animals."

"He could feel the heat in his stomach, too, in his knees, his legs, a rush of it, something like adrenaline, familiar -- Shame."

"it was possible that no two students at Aglionby had ever come away with such a thorough understanding of Latin (or, possibly, of each other)." THIS ABSURD PYNCH COCAINE

"He sucked in more longing with every inhale, he exhaled some of his happiness on the other side. How miserable."

"Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?"

this is lowkey torture. kennit ludluck you will die

"someday there would be a Paragon Ludluck who was loved and cherished."

"[...] I think you are more likely to find Etta's destiny in Etta, rather than hoping Kennit will impregnate you with it."

"no event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it."

every time i read these books i find myself holding the concept of womanhood clutched in my hands. to be a woman is to be brave is to be loud is to be everything you can think of. and every one of the men in this book prove that in their diminishing their women they diminish their own intelligence. wow. i love you women. forever

here we go round 3

i know this is taking me forever but im quite sad abt finishing it :(

"sometimes i feel completely helpless. as if there is nothing i can do to change any of the bad things. other time, i fear i am simply too cowardly to try."

is malta vesprit the best character ever written? sources say, most definitely yeah

if paragon wanted to plant a bomb big enough to destroy the entire world i wld support him #tbh

"i am a tale with no one else to tell me"

i take back what i said abt this book robin hobb u absolute GENIUS

"a self with talons and teeth, so full of misery and fury that i would rend the world to shreds if I could only make it all stop."

"Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely"

amber you never had a single miss you keep hitting . oh my god.

generational lock in getting through this book is BRUTAL when i want to pelt every character with rocks. but amber is there. and the dragons. i fucking love dragons

althea vesprit come out as a lesbian and you'll be reincarnated as a lotus flower

why would a man be there why do they speak

back in the building . we need to beat kennit with hammers

"Dicono che niente duri per sempre ma hanno solo paura che duri piú a lungo di quanto possano amarlo."