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“I would give up the sun and moon and stars if it meant saving him.”

“It’s me. Try. Saigas. Your moss. Your wife.” OH MY GOSH

“Though I had no ear for music, I’d have known the sound of his voice anywhere.”

“I was familiar with how cruel hope could be, a knife to the heart, paring if away slowly, one cut at a time.”

“‘Go find him. You’ll cry off the disappointment if it’s not him. But there’s a chance that it is… and you’ll regret forever if you don’t find out.’”

“Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”

“She brought a freshness to the air, like a garden in spring.”

SO U MEAN FO TELL ME ELANG ALWAYS KNEW HE WOULD DIE BECAUSE HE HAD CHOSEN HER LIFE OVER HIS BEFORE EVERYTHING EVEN HAPPENED

“Do you know how deeply you’ve grown on me? From the day I met you, I knew I’d never be free of you. I wish I could’ve shown you… I love you.”

Aww happy reunion

“‘The last thing I remember was a storm, my ship sinking. The realisation that I’d never get to see my girls grow up.’”

A father🥹🥹

“‘My heart, my home—they are yours. They always have been. I only want you to have the choice—to forget me, if you will.’”

“”You have lost years with your family already. No more. I release you from your contract. Be with your parents and your sisters, live a long and happy life with them.’” UGHHH a man who knows the value of family

“I didn’t know that even the gentlest of kisses could be full of longing. That a touch of skin against skin could turn my body into fire, and that time could become my cruelest enemy.”

“I would miss this smile, I realised too late. I would miss the sound of his voice, the range of it from cold and stern to tender. I’d miss how he said my name.”

They’re so freaking cute Elang is the epitome of yearning.

“‘When I was Gaari, I’d come up with lesson plans or excursions—for you to practice, but also as excuses for me to see you.’
‘There were other bidders, I just wanted to have them. In case you never looked at me the way you are now.’”

“‘I fold you that everything I said and did would mean nothing. When in fact every word we exchanged, every glance, & every moment where I didn’t have to pretend… it meant everything—to me.’”

“A bloom of colour crept back to his scales wherever I touched.”

“Thanks to his years acting as Gaari, he knew my art better than anyone. He knew my lines and strokes, the way I composed my subjects and chose my colours, but most of all, he knew how much I liked to bury little deceptions in my work. Deceptions, like the fact that I hadn’t painted Elang at all. I had painted his reflection—inside the pale blue orb of Nazayun’s eye.”

GENIUS WHAT I GOT CHILLS. OH MY GOSH.

“A grin slowly spread across his face. ‘Clever, Saigas,’ he murmured. ‘Ever so clever.’”

“Maybe that was because it wasn’t an act anymore. Gone were the pretenses; the lies were exposed and deceptions unearthed. And still I found I wanted him.”

“I looked up at him in confusion — and that was when his lips found mine. It was a better kiss than the one we shared in Nanhira. Maybe that was because it wasn’t an act anymore.”

“‘Why so sad, Saigas?’ Elang said softly. ‘Dare I hope you’ll miss me?’ ‘Yes,’ I whispered.
‘It’ll be alright.’ He touched his forehead to mine. His voice fell to a whisper. ‘The shrimps are secured.’”

UGH THEYRE SO CUTE

“Clever women get revenge.”

SHANI WAS A SPY

YES ELANG IS GAARI but ok imma need more explanations…

So if he is gaari then lowkey theyre already best friends OMG MAYBETHATS WHY GAARI WORE AN EYE PATCH FO COVER THE GOLDEN EYE

and the bad guys said they threw him in the ocean SOOOOO

WAIT IS ELANG GAARI

cuz like she kept saying elang’s grey eye looked super familiar and i was like hmmm let me check gaari and i LUCKILY (fate) flipped to page 29: “… Gaari grinned, his grey eye shining.”

YO WHAT

“I’ve been told I grow on people—like moss. Moss is better than a weed. It brightens up the world with its presence, and flourishes even when all is against it.”