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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

RONAN LYNCH THE MAN YOU ARE

listening to the prophecy by taylor swift after that scene to cope

oh neeve, my unsettling queen

“‘I don’t even know what you’re asking me to believe.’
Ronan said, ‘It’s starting, man.’”

bro is never wrong (except for when he is)

“… but Adam had already told Gansey he thought Ronan needed to learn to clean up his own messes. It was only Gansey who seemed afraid that Ronan would learn to live in the dirt.”

UGH i need someone to bottle whatever maggie put in her writing. i’d like to inject it in my veins.

“Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn’t know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan, and cut themselves.”

it feels like coming home

“No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future. But know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscious. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children?”

this is gut wrenching

oh ☹️

despite my initial expectation that i would not become super invested in these characters (mostly because of the mode of storytelling), they almost feel like friends somehow

this is a neat mode of story telling

“‘You want to play the big game? Fine. But you play to win. You make them fear you.’
‘I’m not that man.’
‘Then you’re for the worms, dominus, and I’m out my last friend.’”

it’s kinda trippy to read about the ebola panic 10-12 years after it happened and still remember watching some of the news scenes in this book and talking about it in school and stuff

i can’t wait for the next book club meeting holy smokes

“But an idea can end a world. An idea is alive. It can mutate, it can replicate, it can predate on other ideas… it can hide. And - people deserve to be safe.”

“No one is coming. It’s up to us.” is a brutal slogan. these guys are so cool.

a company of “fuck if we ball”ers

yeah okay i’m crying

there’s plenty happening and yet i am so… bored

hey debbie! that kills people!

book club from hell

yeah no offense deb but i think you’re kinda…. odd

“Because hope is an opiate, not a plan.”

if i had a nickel for every time a book i’ve read this week mentioned ojai, california i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

(is this a sign from the universe or something? i’d never heard of this place until this week. what’s going on here)

these working conditions are quite hostile

alexa play “i know the end” by phoebe bridgers