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“Who is free, who loves another?” ❤️‍🩹

“I have loved you since before I was born, I think. I have studied you, worshipped you, lost you, mourned you. I have wept at your bier fought beneath your flag. I have killed, Una, over and over. This once, please - let me save you.” 😭😭

“If I serve anything, let it be that. If I die for anything, let it be you.” 😭❤️‍🔥

“The word *home* evoked only the sweet green smell of the woods, long gone, and sometimes another word: *Yew*, I thought, or perhaps *you*.

“But if the body remembered pain, it surely remembered pleasure, too. Perhaps your lips remembered mine, and my hands recalled the shape of yours; perhaps each time you touched me it left a subtle mark, so that my skin had become a map drawn in invisible ink, which might lead me back to you.” ❤️‍🩹
I’m savoring every word in this book. I think I will go insane.😭😩

“We had told this story so may times, you and I, and we would tell it so many more, and it would always end here, like this: with my blood on your hands and your tears on my face.” 😭😭😭

[…]“Yvanne had looked at me like that, the first time she saw me. She had needed me, and I had spent the last two decades becoming whatever she needed: her sword and her shield; her sinner, her servant, her saint; her butcher and her best beloved. I couldn’t do it any longer, not for her. But for you - I would be a hero. One last time.” 🥺

“The world might remember you as I wrote you, but I would remember you as you were: hard and strange and silent, your hands bloodied and your soul sick with it. I would remember the line between your brows. I would remember that you were not beautiful, not really, but that the sight of you struck me as a hammer strikes hot iron, reordering my very atoms.” 🥺❤️‍🔥

“Wait for me, beneath the yew tree.”

“If I couldn’t have you or heal you or save you - if I couldn’t love you - then I would make all of Dominion love you, forever and ever.” 😭