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zoulfa is literally THE writer of this generation. this book is so healing and idk if I can stand it

yusra and hanna, if u see this, u should read it too 🫶🏽

I'm letting my gut take the lead with this.

alhamdulillah she has a backbone 🙏🏽🙏🏽

”Just be—" She stops, taking in a deep breath.
"Be what?"
She sighs. "I don't know. A bit nicer?"


murder is on the table, yes 🤗

I remember because I gather kindness like precious stones. Because friendship doesn't come easily to me, and all I can do is hope to be noticed.

hayati ☹️

"You would marry for something as mundane
as love?"
"Mundane? Love is the closest thing to the heavens."

"And they don't get that film is a totally different medium, and requires different storytelling skills," says Justin. "It's a translation, really. And translation across mediums is inherently unfaithful to some extent. Roland Barthes. An act of translation is an act of betrayal."


Ah to read Babel again for the first time

For the first time since I submitted the manuscript, I feel a deep wash of shame.

WA AKHEERAN. OH MY GOD SHE PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH THIS STUPID STUPID STUPID BLOODY IDIOT

i’ve never felt this level of hate towards a character this earlier on oh my days i want to kill her

i think i may be getting cured of my slump....

“I know a really good spot—prepare to be amazed."
"I’m never amazed." he says

uh huh

“I suppose murder isn't an option,” Alice says in a contemplative voice.
Henry and I stare at her.
“What? I said it isn't an option," she says, throwing her hands up. “Not the easiest one, anyway," she adds.


I missed this girl sm 😭😭

”She's still my daughter. My little Ilyanna. It doesn't change anything if she goes to live in her husband's home, she will always have a place in her father's house. If I catch you boys talking like this about this bedroom again, I'll re-acquaint you with the leather belt.”

welp, excuse while i go cry in a corner and restate that I’ll never get married 🥹

ok i think the pace i’m reading at is saying a lot already but HELL NO

this is not what i mean when i said wanted historical romantasy

if she calls his face beautiful ONE MORE TIME

private messages are officially gone. i hate goodreads.

“I will not have you mistreat a guest in my home.”
“I shan’t lay so much as a hand on him,” Anthony replied. “I give you my word.”
Having never had a mother, Simon was finding this exchange fascinating. Bridgerton House was, after all, technically Anthony’s house, not his mother’s, and Simon was impressed that Anthony had refrained from pointing this out.

my eye twitcheddd THATS HIS MOTHER

buddy reading with @halima even though we have been joined at the hip obviously her entire life, this is insanely our first br 😛

“Not only that, Salil was Indian.”

I beg my finest pardon??

FINALLY BR W MY GIRL KAYLA AFTER PLANNING IT MONTHSSS AGO 🫶🏽🫶🏽

at first, i thought he would be my least favorite from her mmcs but now…..he might become my favorite

got da arcccc

i am going to kms if I don’t get a arin irl GWJEHEUEBRUWJEBEJBRHEBEURBRUEBDIENEVEIBREUBRJRHRJRHRHRVDUEUEEU

I AM UNWELL I CANNOT SURVIVE THIS

Loneliness had become a rope around my neck, and the noose tightened each time I put on the mask of Malika. No matter how comfortable I became around the Urabi, they were not Sefa and Marek. They were not Rory, Fairel, Raya.
They were not Arin.

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i think….arin may be earning a place in top three book husbands maybe even tying with roma for first….

If I were a sensible woman, I would slit your throat while you slept.
Arin thrust the memory aside with an impatient hand. He did not need to scour his own mind to understand that a certain kind of violence appealed to him—that the Jasad Heir’s oceans of wrath had called to Arin like a poisoned fountain to a parched man.

THE WRITINGGGGGGGGGGGGG 😩😩😩😩😩

“Leave me alone; I want my space” has no place in the traditional Somali family, where it is normal for everybody to be in your business and for you to care what they thought.

im cryingggg this is so true

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This must have been why he hadn’t taken the pencil from the book. He’d wanted Holland to find it so he could follow her to where it led.

GOD I hate slow main characters NO DUH