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oh this one is going to hurt a great amount i fear

let’s try this again

fire author’s note. guy knows ball.

waaaaaaait a minute……………

this guy is talking too much, i’m calling imposter

“… but to me, your plans taste like fantasies of a young man attempting to invent a way out. We are small things, Kol. We are given no charity in this world.”

this book has crack in it

i pity the fool that enters a self sabotaging contest against troy barrett

“Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag.” 🚬🦊

all i can picture is luke from julie & the phantoms (this is not a negative)

school is stealing all my reading time, this is an outrage

“A tragic creature, perhaps, determined to maintain himself even as he fell to pieces. I felt a brief powerful desire to offer him protection.”

i see din still suffers from trytosaveeveryone disease

“Bones. Dust.”

some of you don’t even know the devastation i felt the first time i read those two words. some of you do.

“…sometimes it wasn’t about saving yourself, it was about holding out for long enough until someone else could save you. So she held out. And stretched for the stars even after her roots were being dug away. And she held out. And she sang to other trees even as her trunk was rotting out. And she held out. And she dreamt of the sky even as she was unmade. The other trees wailed.” <\3

I NEED IT TO STOP BEING 6:21

“‘Oh, baby.’” yeah, we’re on the same page jimmy

“‘Is it so strange a thing, ma’am, to helplessly look upon the slain and dream of instead saving lives?’”

“She then launched into a winding dissertation about roads: one of her favorite topics.” nobody’s doing it like ana

“He was a king. This was the year he was going to die.”

i don’t know if i’m ready to feel this pain again

listening to “afraid of heights” by boygenius because i’m convinced it was actually written about this scene and these characters

“Something terrible has happened.” :((((((

“It was possible there were two gods in this church.”

“Of course he would be taken from them.” UGH

“The solidarity of being the one left behind.” ☹️

this is a comedy! this is a tragedy! this is a mystery! this is a love story!

it was NEVER going to be me and you!

“Well—the fucker simply knows too much!”

afraid this is one of those books where they vaguely allude to Something That Happened That Was Very Impactful That Is Going To Stay Secret For Suspense but are never going to reveal

ronan lynch: keeper of secrets, fighter of men, devil of a boy (my beloved)

copying my same update from years ago because it still holds true

listening to matilda and thinking about adam parrish, as per usual