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“My father was governor before me. I just acted in accordance with what he taught me. Please!”
That was all anyone in this world did. What they saw their predecessors and teachers do. The Avatar was not the only being who was part of an unbroken chain.

I love this line but it's never an excuse either

“Aging is really just your body falling apart, on the smallest, most invisible levels, and neglecting to put itself back together,” he said. “With the right mental focus, you could take an inventory of your own body and place each little piece that’s not where it should be back into the correct order.”

She did live for 200 something years no?? I didn't just make up that did it?

In the Fire Nation, hair was heavily linked with honor. She’d heard that sometimes the losers of an important Agni Kai would shave parts of their head bald, laying patches of their scalp bare to symbolize an extra level of humility from their defeat, but the topknot was always sacred. It was never touched except in circumstances akin to death.

And I can only think of Zuko right now.

cabbages will never not be funny in the Avatar-verse

“Kiss me where I’m not hurt.”

IM DEAD! I DIED!

“You know what you felt, watching me lie on the canvas?” Rangi said. “That helplessness? That sensation of your anchor being cut loose? That’s what I’ve been feeling, watching you, every single minute since we left Yokoya! I got on that platform so you could see it from my perspective! I had no idea what else would get through to you!”

Awww Rangi

For the first time today, Jianzhu was truly alarmed. For a Fire Nation native to treat her hair, her topknot, this way meant she felt she was losing her honor. . .“Jianzhu, I pushed that boy to the breaking point, He might not have been a Firebender, and he might not have been the Avatar, but Yun was still my student. I had an obligation to him, and I failed.”

Yeah you did!!! And I hope it hunts you forever

“Letting herself be absorbed by worldly concerns, and greedy ones at that, caused her power to dwindle. So she compensated.”
“With a set of fans,” Rangi said, snapping her fingers at a mystery solved. “For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why you had fans as an Earthbender. I didn’t ask because I thought it might have been a touchy subject.”

The fans make soo much more sense now!!

If she couldn’t be a creature of grace, then she’d be a battering ram.

Kyoshi, girl!!! 😂😂😂

Those were the last things Kyoshi saw before the white glow behind her eyes took over her entire being.


Never in my life would I've thought this book would be this brutal, and im not even halfway through 😳