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Okokokookok I think I'll have to listen to the last 8% at least 3 other times before I mark this one as finished

“You can’t win,” she said. “Do you know why? Because you are filth.”
“That’s right,” she said. “You expected the gilded boys of Yale, but you got me instead. Trash. Dirt. The things no one can ever quite get rid of. I’ll just keep coming. I’ll just keep getting up.”

She said she killed A CHARACTER, not multiple characterS, right??

This book feels like a dark caress. No matter what horrible things are being told, my head bends as if it could get closer to the sound of it

The cat is always the rightful hero of every great story 🫢 🥹



The cat had been at war with the demon for nearly a century, standing guard over every Daniel Arlington since he had been called forth from Hiram’s Crucible.

“Are we going to talk about … the glow?”
“I’d prefer we didn’t.”
“Does it only happen when you’re—”
“Yes.”
“And what if—”
Darlington pulled the covers over his head. “Can you allow me some measure of dignity?”
“Dignity is for the weak, Darlington.”

“I will serve you ’til the end of days,” he vowed.
She laughed. “And love me too?”
And love you too, he thought as the wind rose and the world outside grew colder.

This bit about who's the prince and who's the priest is more convoluted than usual 😂🤔👀🫠

I'm totally gonna steal this line 🙌🏻

“My mother can forgive anything,” she said. “It’s part of her whole way of moving through the world—be better than the person who wrongs you. But I’m not like her. I can hold a grudge until it squeals.”