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"You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all."

i read this literally two days ago but i can't seem to let go so :'') yeah

here we go again

"A kingdom, or this."

It's no news to anyone that this book ruins me every single time hoo boy

i feel hollow and turned inside out and confused and empty and !! but if i could, i would sleep with this book under my pillow for the rest of my days

"If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity."

this book fucks me upppp

The light of my eyes, I said, light of my eyes, light of the world, that’s what you are, light of my life. I didn’t know what light of my eyes meant, and part of me wondered where on earth had I fished out such claptrap, but it was nonsense like this that brought tears now, tears I wished to drown in his pillow, soak in his bathing suit, tears I wanted him to touch with the tip of his tongue and make sorrow go away.

“What are you doing?”
“Reading.”
“No, you’re not.”
“Thinking, then.”
“About?”
I was dying to tell him.
“Private,” I replied.
“So you won’t tell me?”
“So I won’t tell you.”
“So he won’t tell me,” he repeated, pensively, as if explaining to someone about me.

"-Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not knowing, not-not-not knowing? Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can’t say “yes,” don’t say “no,” say “later.” Is this why people say “maybe” when they mean “yes,” but hope you’ll think it’s “no” when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?"

getting stabbed would be less painful tbh but i love this

"Kid, you're killing me," Nicky said. "Why do you always get that deer-in-headlights look when someone does something nice for you?"

--'Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.'

'It's considerably less than a foot,' said Damen.

'Is it?' said Laurent. 'It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.'


prince's gambit might just be my favourite book in the entire world with all the witty dialogue and killer one-liners tbh

"Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it."

oof this is so good

"I'm not a math problem."
"But I'll still solve you.""

i screamed

"If you don't mind, I think I've heard enough said about my character for one night, or am I to go twelve rounds with you, too? I will."

god laurent is the best