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January 1 - January 11, 2025
“So I’m the Darkling’s prisoner?”
“You’re under his protection.”
“What’s the diff...
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Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with you for a while there. Make sure to write!
“Besides,” she said, “you don’t want to attract too much attention from the King.” Her voice was light, but I saw a shadow pass over her features
Ugh
“I hope you don’t expect fairness from me, Alina. It isn’t one of my specialties.”
At least he's being honest
I’d always assumed that Ravka’s hungry peasants and poorly supplied soldiers were the result of the Shadow Fold. But as we walked by a tree of jade embellished with diamond leaves, I wasn’t so sure.
As Genya led me back into the hallway, I thought I heard her mutter, “Old cow.”
She chided me, cajoled me, even hit me once with her stick.
I love Baghra
“The Queen likes to make sure she’s always available.” “So does the King.” “Marie!” Nadia protested, but she was snickering.
Ugh I’ll never forgive the Darkling for what he did to Genya
One thing did stand out to me: the word the philosophers used to describe people born without Grisha gifts, otkazat’sya, “the abandoned.” It was another word for orphan.
“But you have suffered, haven’t you, Alina Starkov? And I think … yes. I think you will suffer more.”
“Where are you, Mal?” I whispered. But there was no one there to answer.
Trying to find you, babe
“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
Dear Mal, I’d written. I haven’t heard from you, so I assume you’ve met and married a volcra and that you’re living comfortably on the Shadow Fold, where you have neither light nor paper with which to write. Or, possibly, your new bride ate both your hands.
Lmfao
Just … be careful.” I stared at her, baffled. “Of what?” “Of powerful men.”
“He is ancient. He’s had plenty of time to master lying to a lonely, naive girl.”
He had lied to me about Baghra. He had lied about the Black Heretic. Had he lied about the stag, too?
Uh yeah
Put on your pretty clothes and wait for the next kiss, the next kind word. Wait for the stag. Wait for the collar. Wait to be made into a murderer and a slave.
The Darkling wanted to use me. He wanted to take away the one thing that had ever really belonged to me, the only power I’d ever had.
I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day.
The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.
And if you do anything reckless, I will torture the tracker until he begs me to take his life.”
How romantic
“Make me your villain.”
Yeah so you ARE the villain
I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”
Mal, the man that you are
When the tears came, he pulled me close and held me, until there was nothing left but ashes.
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.
