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“Whenever a water snake gets you, you yell all the curse words you’ve got stored up in your little skull closet. Then wipe off the blood, pick up your stick, and go on being an Adaptoid, thrashing on the mossy stump of evil.”

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“Why do you find everything so interesting as you do?” the great mother retorted. Surprised, the child asked yet another question. “Doesn’t everybody?” 🥹🥲

“The doctor who examined Litvinenko’s body, measuring the precise quantity of polonium he had ingested, was a leading English expert in radiation absorption named Matthew Puncher. He, too, would later end up dead, in his Oxfordshire home, having been stabbed repeatedly, his body riddled with wounds from two different knives. (A police investigation concluded that it was suicide.)”

I’M SORRY????

‘Having you close to me for as long as possible, hearing your eloquent voice as it enlightens my mind, re-tempering my soul, making my whole being capable of great and awe-inspiring deeds if ever I should be free, filling my mind and soul so thoroughly that the despair to which I was ready to give way when I met you can no longer find any place in them – this is my fortune.’

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‘I have to admit that my historical work is my favourite occupation. When I go back to the past, I forget the present. I walk free and independently through history, and forget that I am a prisoner.’ 🤧🤧🤧

I’m about to bust out my annotation supplies it’s that good 🥹😭❤️

On second thought, maybe my apprehension had some validity to it. This is nightmare fuel !!!
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My apprehension feels silly in retrospect. This book rocks.

Probably the most apprehensive I’ve ever been to read a book in my life but weird is a buzz word for me so here we are!

You ever finish a chapter and hug the book to your chest, forcing yourself to put it down only so you can savor it a little bit longer? Yep yep that’s me n this book.

Loving the top tier character work but I need the emotional gut punches to chill for a sec 😭🤧

“Let people be reasonable whose families were not held prisoner.”

LFG!! I love this story and its themes and these characters and am so invested in their collective and individual journeys aaahhhh 🥹

I made a super pretentious goal to read through some Pulitzers this year. Let’s see how many I actually get to but I am loving my first pick so far!

Payoff and reveals never tasted so good 🤌
(I know shocking it took me so long to read this)

I have never associated gorgeous, deeply romantic prose with nonfiction and for that I apologize !!! 😮‍💨🤌

Best book I have read all year and my new favorite love story. Full RTC once I have collected myself 🥹😭❤️‍🩹

“Freedom, exhilaration and fear lent them speed.”

I’m going to pass out this is an emotional rollercoaster !!!

If you’re in the mood to sob violently I have a rec for you 😭😭😭😭😭

The female characters (of which there are many!) in this one 🤌

I am on one knee for you, Dorrel 🥹😍💍

No because how am I already this emotionally attached to these characters…!!! It’s filling the Hobb shaped hole in my heart !!! 🥺😫😭

WHAT 🤯😭

I love this book 😂😱🤩

Ok wow truly phenomenal start. These characters are iconic and the HORROR and the humor and the magic and the world and. Yes to all of this !!

“And here was some foreign beggar, on the meanest street of a city foreign to both of them, and he was so fucking happy with the nothing he had. The nothing he had and the woman he shared it with.”

I’m gonna fucking DIE !! The Fever Lodge !!! Old Friends !! 🥹🥹🥹

My heart feels like it could quite literally burst out of my chest !!! This is the best found family I have ever ever ever read 🥹😩

“Do no harm. As a soldier, in an army, in a war.”

Quite the predicament! Gah this is brilliant.

This series may actually be for One Piece fans the most. What in the Skypeia 🫨🤩

This is the coziest grimdark story I have ever read in my life 🥹