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Letting all my shields fall away was temptingly easy with him. An offer. To become one completely once more.
“What are you doing to me, Baradaz?” The emotion flickering in those dark eyes above me felt astonishingly close to fear. Fear and longing.
“Condemning us both”
“Some things are worth burning for”

It'll take me forever to finish it if I keep going back to reread every paragraph but I can't help it

Quotes of the evening
“You know it will never happen again, don’t you? You and me.” My eyes flicked down to his lips.
“Never,” he answered, not daunted by my words in the slightest, “is a very long time for the immortal.”
“We are gods no longer.”
“And yet I find myself so eager to worship at your feet once more.”
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"men overestimate their power and importance, while we underrate ours.”

He hasn't been with anyone since her,even after a 50 years breakup🫠​
“Was I that unforgettable?”
“Yes.” I watched her closely, noting the slight tremor in her hands at my admission.“In all the ages since we came to Aron-Lyr, I never called anyone my lover but you.”
I was hers—body, soul, and all the shattered pieces of my blackened heart. Irrevocably. Even if she rightfully hated me for all eternity

I never knew who moved first—if she tilted her face up to find my lips or if I bent my head to claim hers. (It was always me who bent, but I needed at least some illusions to preserve my pride.)
I was drawn to her like some pitiful, lonely creature seeking the fire’s glow on a dark night, uncaring that it would devour me.

This chapter was HOT af! Like, wow, scorching hot 🥵​

He had an innate ability to sense people’s dissatisfaction and offer them exactly what they craved. Zamani had always said it was because he had never been content, always desiring most what he could not have.
The power to create without limits. Dominion over Aron-Lyr. Me. Two out of three were forever out of his reach. Was he delusional enough to think he could win me back?
Make him work for it but he can

That is the thing about a rebellious mind: it can never be truly quieted. It always finds a way. Eventually.
Alright, I'm with Noctis 100%, the Allfather is just a cruel egocentric god that made his son kill all of his dragons, f***k him

She had given up on me. On us. Unfortunately, I had not.
“You have never been my enemy.”
Even when I had wanted to drown the world in Darkness, my urge for destruction had never included her.
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If someone were to spill my blood, scatter my very being to the winds, I suspected the remaining tatters of my spirit would still yearn for her somehow

The yearning here is already so good