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“Louder, sweetheart,” he says gently, and then wants to kick himself because it’s the second time he’s said sweetheart today and meant it. Merlin save him. Hes losing his already-lost mind. This, this is what happens when you’re so bloody touch-starved as a child.

I love Kion so much.

“It strikes me that you’re in limbo. Neither dead nor alive. Much like your writing, come to think of it.”

“And I worry….I don’t think anything matters to you anymore, Bud. And that kind of breaks my heart.”

“You will never see a sunrise where I am not waiting for you.”

“I should warn you, I have every intention of dying in combat.”
“As do I. In that, we are matched.”

“I know what agency means to you, what has been taken from you. I will always give you a choice. But I will not always respect or accept that choice.”

“For the first time in my life, I’m connected to someone I can’t disappoint, because he already knows everything about me.”

“Wanting something —someone—for yourself is not the same. It is the action that matters, and you have a history of acting in the interests of others.”

“I have seen your soul. Every haunted memory, every vile thought, every malevolent desire for revenge. I am cognizant of your downfalls, and yet I see the potential of everything you can become. I see it all.”

“I have not bonded previously because I refuse to bear a rider who breaks under pressure.”

“You have yet to earn a first name while your last overpowers it. Why would you seek a dragon as boring as you are?”

“Don’t be too flattered. I do this to all my favorite takeout.”

[about buckling the seat belt of a very wounded and bleeding demon hunter]

“Can I make it up to you by baking more?”
“Whisper more sweet nothings to me like that and I’ll consider us an item. I demand a wedding band made out of choux pastry.”

“My dear, I don’t think you’re made of glass. But a brick wall can still take damage from a hammer.”

“Alistair had received no credit, but he told himself he didn’t mind (he did) and he was happy as long as justice was served (he wasn’t).”

“I spent forever planning for vigilante, and somehow I ended up with law-abiding and systematic. Yuck.”

“I promise, I’m far more acquainted with the evils of men than you will ever be.”

“It’s good to have you home, Scioness. First you break the curse, then you bring us bacon, and now a wet T-shirt contest. Be still, my heart.” 😄

“But if it is too much to bear, take heart: I am made of stone. And if you do not feel you are strong enough”— I could hear the little smile in his voice—“I will shoulder any weight you give me.” 🥹

“Only that, in a place like the Fervent Peaks, where strength is the greatest marker of merit and cruelty against sprites made commonplace, wouldn’t it be a curious thing if a creature like me defeated these oarsmen at their own crafts?”

Oh Bartholomew ♥️

“You look like the abbess. If she’d have worn a whit of color.” The gargoyle leaned close to the water and whispered conspiratorially to his reflection. “I’m prettier than that bitch ever was.”

I will riot if something happens to Bartholomew ⚔️

“But a riddle is only as smart as its creator is stupid, for an idiot finds many things in this world confusing and assumes them to be clever! Riddles are always products of a mind trying to be cunning, so they can lead to all sorts of dunderheaded shit.”

“But I know this is the beginning. And all I can do is watch.”

Stupid, dumb book 😭

Candidate for the most misleading book title ever, because 😭

“I’m not sure if I could get more work if folk knew I did such a thing.”
“You can blame it on her. They’ll quickly learn her nature and believe you. You can blame more on her if you wish. Crop failures. Pestilence. They’ll believe that, too, soon enough.”

Oh Din & Ana, my faves 😄