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oh never mind he’s not dead??

mc dies 30% of the way into the book?!?

the way that this author communicates the most horrifying backstory information in the most casual way is really throwing me for a loop

tariffs?? 😳

hold up—they have airports??! for some reason i assumed we were like in the 1920s technologically

“Many Nations War” okay world war (I) fantasy rebrand

“Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut.” i’m dead 😭😭😭

it’s safe to say i would not survive all these uncommunicated social expectations

let’s normalize putting scripture references right after the quote and not in the endnotes… i’m getting tired of flipping back so much :/ ❤️❤️❤️

“[Mary is] formidable, too: we tend to think of her lowliness and vulnerability, but forget that she is such a force to be reckoned with that John, the stand-in-son Jesus leaves her in the care of, prophetically depicts her as surviving combat with a demonic red dragon while she gives birth."
Mary mentioned so I thought of you @Marina

trying to figure out if fonda is pulling a six of crows and starting from the perspective of completely irrelevant and disposable characters 🤔🕵️‍♀️🧐

"Yes," said he, smiling-"and reason good. I was sixteen years old when you were born."
🙉ladidadida no you weren’t

the first of much more embarrassment to come 😔

“in control of their fertility” is a crazy way to say that we have access to birth control

sheila gregoire study mentioned 😏

new word just dropped (valetudinarian)

i’m just now learning that some people (at least south africans?) write percentages as 99,9%
diabolical

I KNEW JEM WAS GOING TO BECOME A SILENT BROTHER OMG

JEM ACTUALLY DIED WHAT THE HECK

"Faith," said Jem. "That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not always punish yourself. I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done with beating."
😭😭😭

"I am not dead yet, Will," Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire. "What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?"
UHOH

charlotte is so important to me i love her

“To illustrate the potential misleading power of inferences, imagine I had been taught that before the fall Eve was Adam's superior and master, based on the following arguments: 1) In Genesis 1, the last to be created rules, therefore so does Eve, who is created last in Genesis 2. 2) Eve is called a ‘helper’ —a term mostly used of God who comes to rescue the weak...”
can’t include all 8 but it was 💯

happy feet reference in my theology book? count me in
(i’ve never even seen the movie)

😟

A PROPOSAL?!? WE’RE ONLY IN BOOK TWO!!

omg i’m so happy cassandra thank you for not making me wait another book for some henry x charlotte content

FREE MY MAN WILL

same side of the carriage instead of across is criminal

OMG THE ANGST 😏😋