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“Be confident and bold. That’s all you need. Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who’s precious to you.”

3.5/5 stars. keen to read the next one. sad ending ;-;

so cool how it connects to the previous two books :)

‘She asked if Death might spare a single soul.
Death would have granted the moon any wish within her power for Death is nothing if not generous. This was a simple gift, easily given.’

‘Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.’

“Knights who break hearts and hearts that break knights”

“Know Thyself, and Learn to Suffer.”

‘A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.’

‘Zachary Ezra Rawlins’s hands begin to shake.
Because while the first part of the book is a somewhat romantic bit about a pirate, and the second involves a ceremony with an acolyte in a strange underground library, the third part is something else entirely.
The third part is about him.’

3.5 / 5
good book but felt a little unfinished, loose ends to be tied up. i’m hoping the third book will fix that :)

‘To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.’

“Don’t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don’t live a lonely life without love. […] Love is wonderful. I don’t want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live.”

Such a sweet book, will definitely be reading the sequel.

“It’s like the line from Naoe Kinoshita in Confessions of a Husband, ‘My boat travels lightly, drifting aimlessly at the mercy of the current.’”

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‘[…] I realised I was wrong. I’d wanted someone to ask me about it. I’d wanted someone to console me. I’d wanted someone to take care of me.’

‘Who on earth played this cruel trick on me? The culprit, of course, was me.’
hehe :’) silly girl

‘Unobstructed stars lit the sky above the mountains, putting all Tiran’s electric marvels to shame.’

4.75 / 5 ⭐️

‘There was only this moment, and its isolation rendered it invincible.’

‘For her the excitement had turned to horror the moment the abstract turned to skin, blood, and stripped bones. But what if it hadn’t? Horror could be close to excitement…
Fear could be close to excitement.’

‘Thomil was pale, shaking. His grey eyes had gone as wide as if he’d just seen Hell itself.’

‘And it was only as Sciona said the words aloud that she realised this was something she had never had before: a man who listened for what she was actually saying, not just for what he wanted to hear.’

‘He pulled away tendrils of ivy that grew under the skin and what might have once been veins and arteries. The distorted covering fell away like parchment and revealed what had once been a human hand. The first human hand.’

‘being a trigger to somebody else’s event was far beyond his experience, and he was not sure how comfortable he was with the notion.’

‘He slept knowing that everything in his life was a mysterious and that his only purpose seemed to be to travel through the Vorrh.’

“Adam will never leave now. The angels have grown old and weary in the forest; perhaps they have forgotten their purpose. Perhaps God has forgotten them all.”

‘“Who you pointing at, you stick-legged cunt?” he said as he approached the hand.’