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"Every migrant boy knew the contours of that place, felt its dreaded presence looming over them, like a voyeur watching their every move. To grow up always being the object of observation, every word accounted for, every move condemned. A part of Rami always knew he was a criminal before he’d even committed the crime"

You are a weapon, little witch. You were made to hurt. And men only know how to use weapons—they do not know how to love them.”

“Are you sure? I’ve certainly known men who were a little too fond of polishing their swords.” I painted honey over my grimace and didn’t care if it looked like a smile. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to pack."

“Are you angry?”

“Anger is a very useless emotion,” she gritted back—the same words he had used on her long ago. “No, I am not angry. I am not even angry that you withheld this information. I would be a hypocrite if I were to deny that we all have painful secrets we wish to hide.” Leena could see that he had not been expecting that answer, but she pressed on before he could interrupt.

Her quoting him, the angst

They had stolen a princess and left me. She was valuable—I was something they bartered away without care and without my consent. I hated them for it—hated them almost as much as I adored the queen who gave me a home, raised me with a purpose, loved me as she would her own daughter.

She could have easily executed me. And not even I could have blamed her if she had.

Ooh sounds like a lot to unpack here

“I want what is best for my kingdom.”

I almost laughed again. “And you think that’s me? I’m not even nineteen. I barely know who I am or understand what I am. And I don’t know a single thing about ruling a kingdom.”

I forget that girlie is not even nineteen lol, why not make her older 🙃

“I think, Mr. St. Silas, that a part of you wishes you had never made this deal with me.”
He halted, then slowly turned back to face her. “Is that so, madam?”

“I think you may even regret it.”
His smile was indulgent. “You claim to know my regrets?”
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I love this story, and I love their dynamic !! I want to update with more quotes but i won't...

Been slacking on my reading, but I can feel I will love this one ! The writing is nice🥰

Been reading this on and off for months via audiobook lol

“Do you think he’s watching us?” she said quietly.

He. The Sunling ruler and king of Lightlark. The last remaining Origin, with blood from each of the four realms that still had a presence on the island. He could wield each of the four Lightlark powers.

And, by all accounts, he was insufferable. "

He's going to be the love interest for sure lol

I like what I'm reading, but I'm not transported

This being, between other things, about arts, IA, capitalism, make it a type of fiction I enjoy

People seem to believe in a big-daddy-God(..) in a kind of super-person (..) believe God is another word for nature. And nature means just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask 7 people what all of that means and you’ll get 7 different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?

"You should be terrified of me, Behach Éan.

Beyockeen? I stifle my curiosity because I don’t care for malicious nicknames, and I cannot imagine the awful-sounding words meaning anything kind after our inimical exchange."

Love the use of a language we don't know, so that the mc can later be surprised at what was really said haha, also a few words I did not encounter before, like "inimical", how peculiar

“I’ve got an idea. A brilliant one. How about you fly down there, grab your friend, and carry him up to me, then I’ll remove the obsidian arrow that felled him?”

When I get no answering vision, I set my gaze back on the large black spot beside my head. The crow neither looks amused nor enthusiastic about my suggestion.

“Should I take your complete apathy as a no?”

Is he going to transform back into a human lol

"Dante mentioned he was worried about me, but when exactly did he worry? While sleeping with Beryl or while entertaining his princess?"

That may be mean, but karma hit her lol I know our main character will surely have character development... surely

I suppress my guilt under a bright smile, because I’m destined for a throne, not a fishing boat, and Dante is destined for me, not for a foreign princess. “Just tell me where and when, and I’ll be ready.”

Dannng girl

"As the sun bastes the sky in oranges and pinks, I end up at the wharf where I find Giana locking the tavern door"

I never saw this verb "bastes" before haha

They all deserved to die.

“Is she always this difficult?” Susannah asked the headmaster.

“Given what I’ve seen since meeting her, she’s being fairly cooperative at the moment,” he said with a chuckle.

I turned to him, glaring, but I didn’t bother to fight it when a grin took over my face instead, and I giggled in acknowledgement. “Think of it as something to look forward to,”

She's a "fun" MC i will say that

“Good. My granddaughter is very much off-limits to you and your kind, Headmaster Thorne,” she said, reaching forward to unwind my arm from his.

“That’s not entirely true,” he said, and even without looking back at him, I heard the smirk in his voice. But my mother had warned me that my seduction would need to be a secretive one—that the Covenant forbid relationships between witches and Vessels.

😏😏

He was beautiful and infuriating—a disaster waiting to happen.

“Miss Madizza, I presume?” he asked, his voice deep and raspy as he slowly tilted his head to the side. His gaze continued to rake down my body, sliding over my stomach and thick thighs until his smile broadened when he took in the combat boots on my feet.""


How does she know he's infuriating they have not even talked lol

When the coughing had passed, Naftaly said, “I expect that one night I will dream of this place and you won’t be in it.”

The Mazik’s head fell back against the stone wall. “I’m here until I die, little one,” he said."

Why the "little one" nickname when I knowwww they are meant to be romantic haha thats'not it (The romance has literally a 5% importance in this book but I'm focusing on it... sigh i will never change)

Toba took in her tiny hands, her tiny body; she couldn’t have been more than a few years old. “My mother is dead and my father is wicked,” she heard herself tell Asmel.

“That’s most unfortunate,” he said.

“Does that mean I’ll become wicked, too?”

He turned to her a little. “I don’t see why it should. There’s little in blood but iron and water. Wickedness makes no home there.”

“Spy? I’m not sure where you were going with the tale.”
“Pretty thing,” the Mazik said. “I never said that was me.”
“Didn’t you?”
“Oh no,” he said. “I’m really very boring.”
“That must be why you’re in prison,” Naftaly said, laughing. “For your criminal dullness.”

“That must be it I’m so fortunate you’re here to relieve me of the monotony of my own company.”

The other young character.. w another immortal, damn haha

“Clearly you didn’t know I was here,” I said. “So I can only assume you chose a dramatic entrance for the sake of impressing the cats. Did you hope they might come to worship you as magicians do?”

He gave me a rueful smile. “More fool me if I did,” he replied. “It seems clear those creatures worship no one but themselves.”

Hihi they are cute

What is the point of having a magic shop if you never do your inventory?” I paused. “Do you even know what that word means?”

“Sanctimonious and condescending,” he said. “I wish you’d left me to bleed out; I’d be spared your tedious lectures.”

I turned to leave. “I’ll see you in the morning.”

“Why did that sound like a threat?”

They have a fun dynamic haha

His mind was a labyrinth of thoughts; 1000 years of memory, which all pressed in on her at once, and she was suddenly afraid her half-human mind might not be equal to the task. She called out Asmel’s name and hoped that might be able to help her find what he wanted to show her. She felt a warm presence and let it lead her."

I fear the 1000yr old guy is going to be her <3 interest.. lol why not the other 20 yr old ??

He glanced over his shoulder and gave a start. “That one’s loose!”
I turned and found that His Majesty had joined us silently, blinking his golden eyes at Havelock in a considering sort of way.
“Come, Your Majesty, Here, boy.”

But His Majesty, uniquely attuned to human discomfort, stalked towards Havelock, who fell back another step.

“What is it doing? “And why is it so large? Can you not control it?”

Hahaha

Instead of playing out that secret fantasy I didn’t know I had, he brought that icy glare back up, respectfully staring into my eyes.

I released the breath that had suddenly lodged in my throat; the tension had been glorious there for a second.

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It feels cringe a bit, right ? lol, what tension girl ??

“No, it’s just another normal evening in my world. Why, are you feeling like it’s a bit strange?”

His attention fell to my mouth and lingered.

If we were in a book, this would absolutely be the time he’d quip about my smart mouth.

For a moment, he looked like he was about to do just that.

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I don't know, i'm not feeling her

There was something rigidly analytical about him, like he saw the world strictly in logical terms and cared little for emotion.
We couldn’t be more different if we tried, even in coloring.
I was dark and comforting like the night and he was the light of a harsh dawn rising with a vengeance.

why is this woman describing him like she knows him, she just was seemingly abducted by this stranger ? Bring back devlpment