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”There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.” 🥲

”Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”

”Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”

I have really been struggling to find a book I enjoy lately, but 90 pages into this one and I think I have may have found my perfect book. My favorite movie is stand by me and this book feels very similar in vibes. Historical setting, set during a warm summer, beautiful writing and strong friendships between lonely children who has no one else but each other as they embark on an adventure. Yes, I am loving it

There are moments in life, so monumental and still, that the memory can never be retrieved without a catch to the throat, or an interruption to the beat of the heart, can never be retrieved without the rumbling disquiet of how close that moment came to not having happened at all. And when Cressy appeared in the rear view mirror, that was one such moment for Ulysses.

”Eddis did not say what she was thinking: that Sophos held Gen’s heart in his hand, that he was one of very few people who could destroy the king of Attolia, and that Attolia knew it.” 🥲

I’ve never felt like a victim. I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy. 🥲

There was no understanding him, but Costis knew he would march into hell for this fathomless king, as he would for his queen. this book has literally so far only been this little soldier watching his king mope around for almost 200 pages, so why am I so invested

”you forgot me” 🥲

Oh my so many clever twists and turns

sweet, beautiful gen 🥲