The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
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Read between March 4 - March 23, 2023
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“But you’ve got nothing to be afraid of, Sima. You’ve got me.”
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I now feel nervous about sima
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She often made such small, thoughtful gestures.
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The croak of frogs sounded in the air.
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YAAAAASSSSS
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Don’t you understand what you are to me?
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Wring Aditya by the throat, perhaps, or shake him. Or hold his face and say I wish you could be more than this. I wish you would grieve as I grieve, and hate as I hate, and be the person you were when you and Prem and I were boys. I wish, I wish.
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I MISS BEING BOYS TOGETHER
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Perhaps all lives became brimful of pain, eventually. Well, then. Let her daughter’s start painlessly, in joy.
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She turned to look at him, and saw that Jeevan’s expression had hardened. “I can send a dozen men on fast horses,”
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AAAAUUGHH. This is so joey & the queen from princess diaries
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“Because you are you. To me.”
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“Fuck,” Sima said feelingly.
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“Lata,” he said. “How could I not be sad?”
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“You can tell all of that simply by looking at them?” Priya asked, impressed. “I heard someone yelling as he ran past,” he said, which made significantly more sense.
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LOL
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“I don’t know,” he said, suddenly exhausted. “I don’t know what I want.”
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“Rao,” Aditya called out. “I dreamt of you.”
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SHUT UPPPPPP
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“I am not afraid, my lady,” he said solemnly. “Foolish,” she said. “I will simply have to protect you, then.”
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HOLY SHIT
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She straightened, and clasped his hand tighter in return. I’m well, she tried to say, with her eyes, her touch. His head lowered, and after a moment, he released her.
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ffhhhhchjjfjfjhhhhhhfj
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“An act of love does not require asking,”
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You are not my brother. This is not my brother. “You are my brother,”
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Surely you know it.
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“Am I forgiven, Priya?” “Forgiven for what?”
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gay ppl
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“I can do anything.”
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He felt small and helpless in the face of it; painfully conscious of his mortal body and mortal bones.
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“Have you been hallucinating?” “I’ve been traveling,” Priya said, which sounded like a yes.
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I don’t love you in pieces, I don’t separate you into parts. But Priya would have heard the lie in that.
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“Oh. Look at you.” “You’re looking,” Priya agreed, with nonsensical tenderness.
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“I am tired of wanting and not taking,” Malini said.
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“If I can’t hold on to you, then I can hold on to no one,”
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“Your debt has come due.”
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BAD LUCK....
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There was only Aditya drawing him into a crushing hug. Only Aditya murmuring against his hair, “I knew you’d come.”
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OH MY GOD.
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Does a sacrifice have the same power if you don’t know what you are sacrificing?
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Edward elric would say... NO!
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as dancers swirled around them, as the wail of the sarangi filled the incense-laden air.
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This scene is just like. In godfather II
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that all griefs in the world came back over and over again, spinning like a terrible wheel.
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Only silence, in the aftermath, where his heart had once been.