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'It’s sad, but the world’s made of sadness, if you hadn’t noticed, great gray bricks of it and mortared all together with pain and obligation.'

Ждать неоткуда и не от кого,вокруг один сплошной Бабий Яр.Вот столкнулись две силы и молотят друг друга, как молот и наковальня, а людишки между ними, и выхода нет, и каждый хочет лишь жить, и хочет, чтобы его не били, и хочет жрать, и визжат,и пищат, и в ужасе друг другу в горло вцепляются, и я, сгусток жиденького киселя, сижу среди этого черного мира, зачем, почему, кто это сделал? Ждать-то ведь нечего! Зима. Ночь.

И я удивленно посмотрел вокруг, и с мира окончательно упали завесы, пыльные и серые. Я увидел, что поклонник немцев дед мой – дурак. Что на свете нет ни ума, ни добра, ни здравого смысла – одно насилие. Кровь. Голод. Смерть. Что я живу и сижу со своими щетками под рундуком неизвестно зачем. Что нет ни малейшей надежды, или хоть какого-нибудь проблеска надежды на справедливость.

I can't believe I'm giving a shit, but to hell with the bland childhood friend and Kylo Greg, Nikolai is clearly the superior choice and the only one who has actual chemistry with Alina, COME ON. (My inner 15-year-old is still alive, apparently).

"Sankt Petyr of Brevno"

...I thought I was prepared. I wasn't. *dies*

I just can't with the bad prose and shallow characters anymore.

So Kaladin canonically suffers from depression, and I'm feeling a strange euphoria. So that's what it's like, to be *represented*.

Kaladin's starting to really grow on me. Sadly, can't say the same about Shallan. I get that she's young and naive and has a character arc waiting for her, but ugh, a lot of little things about her rub me the wrong way (stop calling Jasnah 'ancient', dammit!). Oh well, at least she's not Adolin whose two personality traits are being shallow and bland.

I know some people complained that Laurent held all the power emotionally in KR, but I feel the book did a good job balancing things out. They both make each other vulnerable for one another (even though it *is* more difficult for Laurent, so he has extra points for that).

And then they meet Jokaste, Damen's beautiful and dangerous ex, who might also be the mother of Damen's child, a reminder that Damen has a complicated life outside of his relationship with Laurent. Finally, Laurent is the one who admits to missing Damen first and later offers Damen his sympathy and comfort.

And then Damen effortlessly bests Laurent in the ring, thoroughly humiliating him. Laurent trails after Damen and Nikandros, to "remind" Damen he's late, a lie Damen easily catches him on. Laurent is all hot and bothered after witnessing Damen wrestle.

I may be wrong, but I feel as if the balance of power (emotionally) slowly shifts from Laurent having the upper hand to Damen as they move deeper into Akielon territory. At first it's Damen helplessly pining for Laurent and Laurent taunting him with Isander, etc.

Wit is basically Chicot from La Dame Monsoreau, and it's delightful.😍

Feel free to get exciting any minute now, book, I'm ready!

'I have no quarrel with literary fiction, which usually concerns itself with extraordinary people in ordinary situations, but as both a reader and a writer, I'm much more interested by ordinary people in extraordinary situations.'

the last line of the third story is going to stay with me for a while. maybe forever.

..."I yield". "I could have done it at any time when I was a slave." "He was everything I had." "Stop me." No pretense anymore, just raw emotion, just the truth. I love it!

God, the duel scene, with the gradual building of tension and the climax, is the best scene in the whole trilogy. I can't count all the things I love about it! Both Damen and Laurent just letting out all the bottled-up anger, the resentment, the passion they feel towards each other, Laurent abandoning his fancy style and fighting like an animal in the end...

oh man, the second story is really hitting me hard.

And Kaladin is sort of meh as well. Seriously, he *almost likes* the cruel slavemaster because he's what, witty and unapologetic? Really? And tearing up that map was stupid and selfish; what if the other slaves had suffered because of this?

And secondly, her sense of humor is horrible, but everyone around her acts as if it's the height of wit.

Several chapters in, I'm not feeling the characters yet. And I think I'm leaning towards disliking Shallan. First off, any character who'd assume a grown woman who's not married *must* be an ugly spinster is automatically in my shit list (and yes, it doesn't matter if the character is merely "of their time" and doesn't know any different. I still instinctively dislike them. I can't help it).

Damen: "Nothing is more important to me than Akielos!"
Also Damen: "If he could give Laurent up, he could do this." / "He didn't have Laurent's ability to hurt with what mattered most."

anticipationspren? there really is spren for everything.

'Makedon said, thickly, 'You are our King. This is an insult to Akielos that cannot be borne.'

'You will bear it,' said Damen, holding Makedon's gaze, 'as I have borne it. Or do you think yourself above your King?'

Ahhhh, I love when Damen is *like this*.

'Damen stared at him. He felt a strange pressure in his chest. The lamplight appeared to wave and flicker.'

wait wait wait. is Damen... tearing up here? is that what you're trying to tell me, book?

the UST in that shoulder massage scene... it should be taught in writing class. SO GOOD.

''He did hit me too,' said Laurent.

'Once,' said Damen.'

another underrated moment. :)