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“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.”

“Please don’t talk to me about isolation. No one has to tell me how it changes a person. I have lived it. I am isolation.”

“Kya couldn’t remember how to pray. Was it how you held your hands or how hard you squinted your eyes that mattered?”

I’m starting the full cast audiobook version and I’m so excited

“'You want to do the right thing,' said Ramy, bullish. 'You always do. But you think the right thing is martyrdom. You think if you suffer enough for whatever sins you've committed, then you're absolved'”

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

“He was not so easy and as even as he pretended. Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different color, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.”

10 pages in, had to double check this wasn’t a one direction one shot…..
in brighter news, i don’t think i like books set in the real world in present time. and i thank ana huang for that realization.
i don’t know if im desperate enough to keep going… i will update you (my 3 fans)

This is a HORROR story
I had NIGHTMARES after this chapter

I don’t know how to read the name Delalieu and I’m on the fifth book

“It is here, above the clouds, that I finally understand Icarus. I, too, am tempted to fly too close to the sun. It is only my inability to be impractical that keeps me tethered to this earth.”

“I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tok before I fall asleep. I can suffocate sounds just by holding my breath. I’ve been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind.”

Rebecca please stop separating the main characters

RELEASE DAY BABY LETS GOOOOOOO

“Home. This, with him. This was home, as she had never had. For however long they might share it.”

Okay I simply couldn’t do this 🥲
I wanted to read through Rebecca Yarros’ collection after loving Fourth Wing & Iron Flame, but the writing of this book was so lackluster and inexperienced. She has definitely got better over the years. I feel so bad saying that. Maybe I’ll come back to it and change my mind.

UGH.

“Even if I had my choice of any dream realities, any perfect illusions, I would still choose you”

“Maybe we’re born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing.”

“Chaol felt, perhaps for the first time, as if he was awake”

“Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips.”

“I would have fought for the rest of my life to find a way to return to you again.”

“The darkness shoved itself down his throat, choking him, strangling him.
He let it.
Felt himself open his jaws wide to let it in farther,
Take it, he told the darkness.
Yes, it purred to him. Yes.”

I can’t believe I’ve made it through Chaols pov and liking it more than EOS 😅

tandem read is going well.