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"The yielding was easy when the assault was so tender. The land would never protest if the sea washed over it with what could not be called anything else but affection."

“I wanted you, too. For so long. It was terrible. Sometimes I could barely eat—sorry, I know that sounds like the strangest thing. But for days I didn’t feel hungry at all. I was . . . occupied. You took away all the other wanting from me.”

MORE YEARNING MOOOOORE

"You told me I don’t see myself clearly, but I do. I know what I am. I know that, deep down, there’s not much else to me but surviving. Everything I think, everything I do, everything I am—it’s just one escape act after another.”

Oooof

Behind his glasses, Preston’s eyes fixed on her. “‘Love is a fire that cannot burn alone.’”

Awwww
Argantian weirdly sounds like valyrian tho

“Mothers aren’t supposed to hate their children.”
“What makes you think she hated me?”

Effy sweetie, your mom hates your guts :)

When she closed her eyes, she could see Preston’s page of notes, blue ink against white. It was her name he’d scrawled aimlessly in the margins, repeating all the way down the page:
Effy
Effy
Effy
Effy
Effy.

Awwwwww

So the two countries are basically Algeria vs Morocco got it