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Off to a rough start but the pace is picking up

“The knowledge that as long as I went on living, I would always have chances to feel these nights made it possible for me to have hope for the future. Lovely nights like tonight. The wonderful scent of the wind a fragrance reminiscent of the aura of the mountains and the sea, which weaves slowly, translucently through every little nook and cranny of our town.”

Some of them may be pathetic and annoying, but for god’s sake I just want them to be safe. Is that too much to ask?

Muntadhir and Kaveh, you both can go drown yourselves in the sea.

Muntadhir ni makin lama makin annoying

On the first page and I already know I will read this book in the future again and again.

“I’m not giving this man another coin. We cannot spare them. You are asking me to take bread out of the mouths of the soldiers who guard your life and bricks from the hospital intended to treat your citizens so an already rich man- a man who twisted our most sacred beliefs- can have his pride soothed?” Ali shook his head. “I will not.”

Alizayd, the man you are.

“She didn’t know what kind of journey it would be. She didn’t know what awaited her. She knew she would go on bravely.“

"Does that not make peace sound rather desirable?"

He sighed. "I don't see how that's possible. Look to our history. Whenever the shafit rise, we're the ones who pay a price."

"Jamshid, have you ever even had a conversation with a shafit lasting longer than ten minutes?"

“Fear and hate ruled the city built up by centuries of spilled blood and the resulting grievances. It was a place where everyone was so busy trying to survive and ensure their loved ones survived that there was no room to build new trust.”

"You don't stop fighting a war just because you're losing battles, Alizayd. You change tactics.”

“She'd liked spending time with someone who shared her intellect and her curiosity, with someone who didn't make her feel self-conscious about her ignorance of the magical world or her human skin.“

“If he could fight for a woman, he could fight beside one.”

“Do you know the difference between you and me?”
“Our noses.” 😂

“Luffy…. Help.”

“And if Elena, with her sternocleidomastoid muscle, and her drool, and the sleeve that won't let her arm in, wants to keep on living, despite all that, she can't believe that her daughter wanted to die. She can't believe it.”

Clothes always retain a person's smell, Elena knows, even if they're washed a thousand times with different detergents. It's not the smell of the perfume or deodorant the person wore or the laundry soap it was washed with when there was still someone to stain it. It's not the smell of the house or the family because Elena's clothes don't have the same smell. It's the smell of the dead person when they were alive.

“In what way am I inferior to him?”

“The way you think.”

“God’s law applies equally to all.”

I live for every banter between Dara and Nahri 😂

“There is power in names. It’s not something my people give out so freely.”

“The wind was beautiful, racing through the sky. If only we could live someplace like that, so high and lovely, free as birds, liberated from our worries.”

“He said he taught himself to concentrate really fiercely, to cut his mind off from his body. He found that it wasn’t all that hard, but he also discovered that it was a dangerous thing to do in the real world.”

“I just liked coming here and feeling things each day, and recording those feelings in a kind of big way in a picture. That was how I saw what I was doing.”

“I seemed to be in love, not just playing—a woman loving a man. I could tell because I was cautious, the way my mom had been with my dad. That’s how she was: the deeper she loved, the more hesitant she was.”

“The hubbub of the place and the scent of coffee and the voices of so many young people left me feeling a bit dazed, since I had been away from these things for a while. It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambience was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.”

“So I can’t deny that Nakajima—who is rather odd—was sometimes a bit too much for me, and in my dealings with him, part of me was always ready to run away.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it’s sad, but that’s the truth.”

“My mother always told me that if you don't understand some-thing, don't assume people owe you an explanation -try to figure it out yourself. I always try to solve problems on my own, but this time, I have to say I'm lost.”

Sensing a major Studio Ghibli’s vibes here 🥺🫰🏼