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“This, I reminded myself, was what knowledge was for. Not to bend to our own purpose and our own ambitions, the way we had when we were young. To find the truth, even when that truth is something you wish could be different.”

“It was my favourite moment of research, the moment when a thousand fragments come together in a blinding flash that illuminates everything. This one I wasn’t sure ai wanted to see by, but out of sheer stubborn habit, I grasped for the fragments.”

“She bargained.”

My gasp. My tears.

I’m seriously gonna cry!!!

Knew it!!

“his grey-blue eyes darted to my face and glanced off without meeting my eyes, as they had the first time we had met. They did that to people he didn't know well, I had learned long ago. The first time his gaze had settled on me had felt significant, as though he were giving me his trust to hold. Plainly, I had dropped it.”

My heart!!! <\3

“And when the nights faded and the sun came up, there were the three of you.”

Oof <\3 love this broken found family

when the long dark nightmare of the Great War was still a fresh scar on our minds. It had been a new, bright world, a world that had been smashed apart and that so many were determined to put back in a different shape. Now the pieces had fallen to earth, and already many had settled into old familiar grooves…

Eddie!!

"I know what to do now." I did. I had ripped open the world for exactly this. Perhaps, after all, I had reached him in time. But all I could think, over and over again, was that I was in a story in which the foolish farmer's daughter makes a bargain with a faerie that ends in her losing everything she loves.

OBSESSED