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I fear some of the pre-Korean War crackdowns are hitting a little too close to home

“But that’s not what happened,” I repeated. “How can they change what I saw with my own eyes into something so different.”

“He banned the People’s Committees and called those like my family and me, who’d benefited from them, extreme leftists.”

“We thought we were free, but so far the only difference in our lives here on Jeju was that the Japanese flag was lowered, and the American flag was raised. One colonizer had been replaced by another.”

“How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or responsibility; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tear shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone so different can understand your heart in a way no one else will.”

This is… not hitting, sigh

He appeared at once younger and lighter having set down his shields; and his shining eyes and soft expression were so unaffected that she could see how he might’ve laughed all the time in another life. 😭😭😭

Oh good, a lore dump

BOTH of these men are exhausting, Alizeh needs to just run away with her friends

“Every one of Cyrus’s dragons was precious to him. But there were three in particular that he loved as if they were his own family.”

Sigh, this is going to hurt, isn’t it?

“Are you implying that I’m vain?”

“I’m not implying it, Kamran. I’m delivering the statement to you directly.”

I’ve heard that the first book is slow, and I really don’t think so?? I’m enjoying the hell out of this worldbuilding and lore, let’s go

I know they have a lot going on, but I need these idiots in love to get their shit together!!!!

No words for how much I love this story, and how much I think it’s going to wound me in the end 🥲

"I felt selfish relief that, at least those little details -- which didn't count, which didn't matter at all in the course of history -- still belonged to us."