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Instant ick. I don’t want explicit description of the MMC with another who’s not the FMC

Honestly, this might be my least favorite book of 2025. Pushing through since it’s a chapter a day

I honestly don’t know what to think LOL

These men are driving me crazy. Not in a good way. Why is everyone downplaying a HEART TRANSPLANT

Interrupting my Christmas reads for this so it’s not spoiled. Begrudgingly.

Finished Oro’s side and I still love him 😭
“I can feel the fracture between us. Breaking something that was never truly whole in the first place.”

“Telling the truth always broke the peace.”

“She had that terrible split second of panic in which she did not know what shape a man's rage might take.”

“I preyed on only the most wicked members of society. Men, all of them…”

Book 200 for the year!

“Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.”

‘“Do you know what the biggest threat to women's health is?"

"Men," Louisa says, because all women know that.’

‘"The biggest threat to men's health, statistically, is heart disease,"…"Do you know what the biggest threat to women's health is?"

"Men," Louisa says, because all women know that.’

"It suits you, that laugh. I'm glad they didn't manage to take it from you."
"Who?"
"All the people who have tried."

“Other children prayed to God, but Ted prayed to the demons, because maybe God decided which people would die, but the demons in children's heads decided which ones had the strength to live.”

“…no doubt she did her best, and that's the worst thing about being a parent: that almost everyone does their best, but almost all fail regardless.”

“He did not know that impressing a white man could be as dangerous as provoking one.”

“How could I say I loved you if I didn’t love this about you?”

"Persistence. Highly underrated in women.
Overrated in men, but underrated in women."

“Just the act of falling in love was to agree to a broken heart.”

“I want to hear you tell me anything you've always wanted to tell someone. Because you know that you've met someone who desperately wants to listen."

Literal full body chills.

This book is meant to read in one sitting so make sure you set time aside to focus.

“If I never accepted it to be real, it would hurt less when it was taken away.”
…
“Welcome home, the breeze whispered again, and I was certain that it wasn't talking about Morthryn, it was talking about her.”

“No one loves you most than someone who has no one else”

“it was a unique type of pain to love something and not have it love you back”

“You can hurt and also be loved. You can feel sadness and also laugh and feel joy. Good emotions can coexist with hard ones. You can struggle and suffer and learn to heal while you also love. The best place to start is by giving yourself permission to feel with abandon. Feel everything."

“…loving even when it might hurt because loss is as much a part of life as what we gain.”

"I love her and it feels like the strongest thing I've ever had. At the same time, it feels like the most fragile."

Well f***. I should’ve known everything was to calm. I was in the eye of the storm. I’m feeling it now.