Elizabeth > Recent Status Updates

“The very best part of our sea voyage was how sick Dwalia was.”

Nods head satisfactorily. That’s what you get!! This bitch is testing me like no other Hobb villain has tested me before 😫🤬

Omfg it just clicked. Beowulf. 🤯🫨🧎🏻‍♀️

I love Buckkeep and these characters so much it hurts 😭🤧

“I leaned forward. I smiled. ‘I think a rapist should look like a rapist instead of a handsome man.’

I stood and clapped after this chapter. LFG MY BOY 👏

Well would ya looky there. Hobb is making me empathize with a character I previously wished would rot in hell 😅🤦🏻‍♀️

Every character. Every line of dialogue. Every internal thought. It’s all perfect and brilliant and SO BITTERSWEET. I never want it to end 🥹

Stressed is an understatement 😭

I can’t turn pages fast enough and also desperately want to savor every single second!! This is the best RoTE book yet. WOW WOW WOW WOW 🥹😍

“I hated the one with the snake boat.” STOP IT RIGHT NOW ROBIN!!! 🥹🥲

Major revelation has me losing my gd mind rn 🫨😭 This is already WORLDS BETTER than whatever I was expecting. And I was expecting it to be great. I’m so happy I decided to come home for the holidays 🥹🥲❤️ AAAAHHHHHHH

Finally! I’m so happy for my girl 🥹🥰

“There was no moment of the entire experience that was not a precarious struggle to stay aboard. And yet for all of that, it was one of the grandest experiences of my life. I lost all awareness of time and distance […] There was only the sun and the water, the serpent beneath my knees and the wind in my face. I was riding a dragon.”

Squealing over this blossoming lil Batman and Robin robot friendship. Please let this story have a happy ending 🙏🥹🥰

The depictions of grief are too real 😭😭😭💔💔💔

I had to go back and start annotating. I am so obsessed with Maggie O’Farrell’s writing 🥹😫

“She cares not what people may think of her. She follows entirely her own course. {…} She can look at a person and see right into their very soul. There is not a drop of harshness in her. She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be.”

I’m in danger I know it’s coming 😫😭

Oh boy this is going to be devastating I see

The suspense!!! I am officially spooked 🫣

“No, I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.”

No I’m the fool for never having read any Du Maurier! I have wanted to underline and tab EVERY SINGLE LINE so far. This writing is unreal?? HELLO??!

“Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery? Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

FUCK ME UP, MARY. 😭

Chances of me becoming insufferable during this reread: moderately high.

“How does a mortal make answer to what his or her kind are capable of? Does each of us, soldier or no, reach a point when all that we’ve seen, survived, changes us inside? Irrevocably changes us. What do we become, then? Less human, or more human? Human enough, or too human?”

This is incredible. I am also absolutely terrified for whatever is about to go down 😰

“Nastiness grows like a cancer in any and every organization—human or otherwise, as you well know. And nastiness gets nastier. Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it’s easier to get used to it than carve it out.”

Say it louder for the people in the back 😮‍💨

“She and the others in the line were the charges of the Empress now—Laseen’s responsibility—and the priest’s path could be seen as blind and random, the imminent collision one of chance rather than design, although in her bones Felisin knew differently.”

SCREAMING 🤓🤩

“The Hounds’ chains,” Paran said. “Break them.”

👀

“Profoundly disturbed by her own answering flush of excitement, Tattersail reluctantly reached for the Deck of Dragons.”

I DID NOT EXPECT FOR THIS BOOK TO IMMEDIATELY HAVE ME BY THE THROAT 🤩

“The path you’ve chosen is full of obstacles and traps, terror and dread, perhaps even blood and iron. Are you certain?”
“No, I am … full of doubt. But it is the more interesting path.”

I’M NOT READY FOR IT TO BE OVER 🥹😭

“It was bright, golden, and the streaks persisted despite the rain: a gigantic, blooming dandelion.”

Let the MADNESS commence….! (I’m scared)

This about to keep me up all night long

“Betrayal, like love, had a thousand-thousand forms.”

Yes of course I’ve already cried.

The twists just keep on twisting….! I am locked tf in. 🫨🤯