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“Franco’s rebels were hoping to take over the whole country within a week, but came up against unexpected resistance from the working class, organized in militias and determined to defend the rights they had won.”

“This saw the start of a period of unleashed hatred, vengeance and terror that was to cost Spain a million lives. The strategy… was to spill as much blood as possible and to spread terror, the only way they could destroy any hint of resistance from the conquered people.”

How’s the saying go? History repeats itself?

“I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”

My sweet, poor and devastating Cardan 🥲

AGHHH CARDANNN 😝

Can’t seem to put this one down, YA has some hidden gems. I honestly thought this series was over hyped but I was so so wrong and I apologize for ever doubting Holly Black

Omg HE KNOWS. There’s no way he doesn’t.

“She loved someone else. He’s the one she’d want dead.”

😬😬😬😬😬

I want to shake them both. Idiots.

WAIT A MINUTE. NO HE DID NOTTTTTTTTTT. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT????

“I have allowed you too much disrespect, and now you have overplayed your hand.”

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

EVEN TARYN????? I mean this is just betrayal after betrayal I’m shaking rn.

“Sometimes it’s easier to be mad at the people close to us, than to be mad at the people who deserve it.”

“Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.”

“I think that if I did not have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.”

Okay Cardannnn 😝

“But he is what he is. He cannot be other than his nature.”

Omg I can’t put this down

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”

A queen ✨

Something isn’t sitting right, idk about Locke…

“…but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down.”

I love Jude sm already

“Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.”

“I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.”

Okay Judeeeee, I see you 😝

“So please do not pity Cora Zheng while condemning Trayvon Martin… do not let your empathy stop at the borders of your own community.”

Kylie Lee Baker ate and left zero crumbs.

“Because a bat eater is the kind of person that white ment want to hurt, the kind of person who tangles their fear and hate together and elicits their rage, the kind of person who scared them. And Cora knows all too well that you can’t fear someone who has no power over you.”

Covid turned horror turned mystery? I’ve got whiplash but it somehow works?

Im getting the vibe Cora’s a very unreliable narrator.. but also, I don’t remember the last horror book I read so maybe it’s all purposeful?

A heavy read so far, definitely better in small doses.

“It’s strange how hate and love can so quietly exist at the same time.”

“When you’re drowning and someone grabs your hand, you don’t ask them where they’re taking you.”

“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.”