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genuinely baffled this has a 4.2 rating. are u guys ok?????

Sometimes, there are no surprises, and despite that, despite your intention to gird yourself against what’s about to come, it still hits you with the force of a kick to the stomach.

“Had she really believed a merch could out think Kaz Brekker? ‘Console yourself’ she said as Van Eck clutched the ragged corner of the table for support. ‘Even better men can be bested.’”

“But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone. So she says yes.”

“I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free. Free to live, and to find my own way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I’ve lived, which is no life at all.”

there’s something poetic about reading a book about a girl who is 23 with a similar name as me and has fears about growing up and losing freedom. “For twenty-three years, she dreaded the marker of time, what it meant: that she was growing up, growing old” and yes, i know 23 is not old, but it feels old to me

“He was hers and she was his, and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war.”

the concept of a talking cat named princess donut saying “I mean, really. I can’t be held accountable for everything i’ve ever said to a stripper” to a barefoot guy wearing red heart patterned boxers. what is this book

everytime i read this book i forget that it’s the best book ever written. the dialogue, the sound family, the fun plot, the crazy twists. it’s a masterpiece. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. my crows <3

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”

its finals season, which means i need a comfort read. which, of course, means i need to reread six of crows for the thousandth time. “no mourners, no funerals.”

“Aelin was no savior to rally behind, but a cataclysm to be weathered.” there is no FMC out there who does it like aelin

“You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her.”

“Reward: You’ve received a Silver Summary Judgement Box!” guys pls i read these books to ESCAPE from law can we not do lawyer jokes

“Carl is very good at killing things, and he can be very clever about it sometimes, but he doesn’t do secret Asian man style murders.” “Agent,” I said. “What?” Donut asked. “It’s secret agent man. Not secret Asian man.” “Are you sure?” “Yes, I’m sure. How does ‘secret asian man’ make any sense?” “Yeah, I suppose that makes more sense.” LMAO BYE 😭😭😭

“What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?”
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”

“She’d forgotten the name she’d been given, but it made no difference. She only had one name now. Death, Devourer of Worlds.”

INSANEEEE I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS

Everything that exists, yearns to live. That’s what the cycle of life is all about. That’s the engine that drives the great biological pumps of evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the very top—which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all that effort. Everything that exists, yearns to live.

“Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.”

“trolls believe that all living things go through Time backward. If the past is visible and the future is hidden, they say, then it means you must be facing the wrong way. Everything alive is going through life back to front.” LIFE IS NOT COMING AT YOU, ITS THROUGH YOU.

“do not pretend that you are some meek, pathetic little girl when I can see that vicious mind working behind your eyes.”

“and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.” LETS GO

“She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, air of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a one glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, and she would not be afraid.”

There is one true king in this room—­there always has been. And he is not sitting on that throne. There is a queen in the north, and she has already beaten you once. She will beat you again. Because what she represents, and what your son represents, is what you fear most: hope. You cannot steal it, no matter how many you rip from their homes and enslave. And you cannot break it, no matter how many you murder.

“But these days. . . she didn’t know what she needed. All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of the abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. And maybe that was a good thing.”

“You like to suffer. You collect scars because you want proof that you’re paying for whatever since you’ve committed. Tell me, do you think you will go to some blessed afterworld, or do you expect a burning hell? You’re hoping for a hell – because how could you face them in the afterworld? Better to suffer, to be damned for eternity.

THIS BOOK IS SO BEAUTIFUL “She yawned, and Rowan rubbed his eyes, his other hand still in hers. But he didn’t let go. And when she woke before dawn, warm and safe and rested, Rowan was still holding her hand, clasped to his chest. Something molten rushed through her, pouring over every crack and fracture still left gaping and open. Not to hurt or to mar—but to weld. To forge.”

“She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw the other part of her… You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”

“It would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her—and didn’t hate her for it.”

“See what you want, and seize it. Don’t ask for it. don’t wish for it. Take it.”