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yes this series was terrible, yes i am feeling nostalgic.

“The life of the businessman is worse than that of the galley slave — his chains are golden instead of iron.” p. 1
Gold is still better than iron??

Maybe the insinuation is that gold physically outweighs iron which symbolizes the extra burden of businessman in comparison to that of the galley slave. Iron also rusts. Gold doesn’t -> The businessman’s suffering is eternal while the slave escapes it with age

“A part of me wanted to remain haughty, indignant, and remote, to see if I could make him squirm and suffer under the oppression of uncertainty as I had done for the past two weeks. But I had not the heart for it, and I assumed the position with barely a beat of reluctance.”
Lock in, omg🫩

i know i said i’d only read in german but i’m an unreliable source.

i’m only reading in German for the next month and a half cuz school is actually starting to kick my ass

let’s see if i finish this book before 2027!

linton is such a little bitchboy

“He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect.”

“would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features”

“a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.”

“I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well.” -H

“Who knows but your mother an Indian queen”

and we cast… Jacob elordi?

“Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.”
i will be stealing this line

This marks the official beginning of my search for phenomenal black-led romantasy novels

YES YES YES YES YEEEESSSS🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

“Her pupils were the shape of hearts.”

get the fuck out of my faceeeuhhhhh

i hope artal fucking dies