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layan ليان (on hiatus)
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I’m completely and utterly destroyed
“What people forget when they worship their history is that, as beautiful as the idea of a revolution is, all revolutions begin and end with war. All revolution is war. War is what we fight.”
— Dec 16, 2025 07:00AM
“What people forget when they worship their history is that, as beautiful as the idea of a revolution is, all revolutions begin and end with war. All revolution is war. War is what we fight.”
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layan ليان (on hiatus)
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I fear Khamilla became my favorite FMC ever. Why is this SO GOOD?!?!
— Dec 16, 2025 04:55AM
layan ليان (on hiatus)
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“You should have done it, coward,’ my words tremble quietly, ‘for my anger is greater. You will regret that you did not end me.”
Queen
— Dec 16, 2025 02:32AM
Queen
layan ليان (on hiatus)
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This is probably the first epic fantasy I’ve read where the emperor isn’t framed as the bad guy
“I am forever the emperor’s blade. A blade does not leave its holder’s side. Wherever he walks, he will know I always follow.”
— Dec 15, 2025 04:26PM
“I am forever the emperor’s blade. A blade does not leave its holder’s side. Wherever he walks, he will know I always follow.”
layan ليان (on hiatus)
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As I’m reading this book I keep questioning, is this what my ancestors felt when they were slaughtered and displaced from their home?
— Dec 15, 2025 01:33PM
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I was NOT prepared for this amount of pain, this reminds me so much of the waterboard chapters in the bone season series
— Dec 15, 2025 07:03AM
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“You are better. I was not”
Violently sobbing.
— Dec 15, 2025 05:52AM
Violently sobbing.
layan ليان (on hiatus)
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“Hope is its own sustenance, little warrior”
This is REALLY GOOD.
— Dec 15, 2025 12:31AM
This is REALLY GOOD.
layan ليان (on hiatus)
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“Two creations: jinn of the smokeless fire, and humans of dirt, but both with souls and free will; and angels with none”
— Dec 14, 2025 04:10PM
