The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)
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Read between April 7 - April 24, 2024
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She was no frog, no dancing puppet.
Emily
look i get that u dont want to be manipulated but ur useless otger than this
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Consider whether you can be of more help to Rand there, or here.
Emily
EXACTLY
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the Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.
Emily
ok but rand is part of that bc of tigraine or whatever
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a bony little man with a big nose, in a dark gray coat that looked too big for him despite the fineness of its cut.
Emily
THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS STILL HERE????
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I’ll try my best not to treat you like porcelain, but if you ask me to watch you die, I will tie you like a lamb for market and send you off to Mistress Luhhan. She won’t stand for any such nonsense.”
Emily
they have such a cute dynamic
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If only his luck would catch.
Emily
hey king this sounds like a gambling addiction
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LMAO
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“He was looking at you as if he wanted to dandle you on his knee. And I do not mean like a father.”
Emily
woah perrins the jealous type
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“Should I ever choose a man—should, I say—it will not be Lan. That much I will say.”
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YEAH BETTER NOT BE BITCH
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“Oh, Egwene, I do not know what to do. I love him. I want to marry him. Light! What will Mother say?
Emily
U HAVE MET HIM LIKE TWICE
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half a dozen times in the space of a year. But I knew I loved him five minutes after I first set eyes on him.”
Emily
LIKE WHAT???
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She snatched her spiced wine and tilted her head back, drinking. Speak out? Like some Mayener hussy!
Emily
calling someone else a hussy for flirting w a man u barwly know is crazy
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do not want to marry you, either. I did not want to change, I didn’t try to, but it happened. If you knew how much this means to me. Not having to pretend. Not being afraid I’ll hurt you. I never wanted to do that, Egwene. Never to hurt you.” She very nearly smiled. He was putting on such a brave face;
Emily
UR EGO IS SO BIG BUT HES TELLING THE TRUTH HE LITERALLY THOUGHT ABT HOW HE DIDNT LOVE U LAST BOOK U HUBRISTIC BITCH
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His arms went around her almost roughly, and his lips came down on hers. Her head spun; her toes tried to curl up in her slippers. Some time later—she was not certain how long—she realized she was leaning against his chest, knees trembling, trying to gulp
Emily
woah didnt know it was that kinda book
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He did like her, but he liked Min as much. Or thought he did.
Emily
damn rand she confesses u make out w her and then say another woman is just as good
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“I am … trying to decide what to do.” He looked embarrassed; he had a right to, in her opinion.
Emily
literally why r u such a bitch
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Egwene, you won’t tell Moiraine about this, will you? About me asking for advice and all?” “Why shouldn’t I?” she asked suspiciously. He was Mat, after
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LIKE SUCH A BITCH UR FRIEND CAME TO ASK FOR ADVICE AND UR READY TO JUST TELL EVERYONE
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Sawchin, or something like it—he heard many variations from many tellers—a strange folk who might be Artur Hawkwing’s armies come back after a thousand years.
Emily
u cannot be dumb enough to not realize that the seanchan
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if the Amyrlin was dealing with the possible threat to free Mazrim Taim.
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given mins vision im gonna say it succeeds
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He listened to her, and often took her advice. She thought she could have loved him
Emily
bare minimum babe
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he has ears and common sense 😍
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“By tomorrow midday you will have offered her the treaty I want, or by sunset tomorrow I’ll hang both of you.
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WOAH
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He spun, gaping at the young woman standing by the door, fair of skin and dark of hair and eye.
Emily
NOT THIS BITCH AGAIN
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She actually thought she was
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RAND U R THE DUMB ONE HERE
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she had served evil so long she made a Black sister look like a newborn babe. Yet he saw a woman.
Emily
bruh this is not the feminist take you think it is
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It isn’t fair he can do something like that and I can’t even see the flows.
Emily
boo fucking hoo bitch baby
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He had been considering seeing whether Dara was awake and up for a cuddle.
Emily
they keep saying cuddle but i dont think thats what theyre doing
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only referring to sex as a “cuddle” from now on
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“Farm girls in Saldaea have a way of dealing with women who poach others’ men. If you do not swear to forget Perrin Aybara, I will shave your head as bald as an egg. Perhaps the boys who tend the chickens will pant after you, then!”
Emily
SLAY QUEEN LMAO
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“To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!” “To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!” “To give up half the light of the world to save the world!” Together they howled like steam escaping under pressure. “Go to Rhuidean, son of battles! Go to Rhuidean, trickster! Go, gambler! Go!”
Emily
wow this isnt ominous at all
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“The Old Tongue,” Moiraine told him. “They use the Old Tongue—a rather harsh dialect of it—for their dealings with men. And you, Mat? Was your interpreter easily understood?”
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HAHA I KNEW HE WAS SPEAKING THE OLDD TONGUE AGAIN
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“He gathered as many children as he could—and some of their mothers—into a large room, and held the door alone against Trollocs and Myrddraal through the entire fight.
Emily
STOP I LOVE LOIAL
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As close as you need to, so long as it’s plain you are following. You will trail after me like a puppy until you ask. Why won’t you just ask?”
Emily
Hes literally risking his life bc shde outsmarted him and he wont admit it
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The Warder filled the doorway with his broad shoulders, his face a thunderhead; if his blue eyes could really have given off the thunderbolts they threatened, they would have blasted Nynaeve.
Emily
RAHHHH THEYRE INTERACTING
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This man had an iron self-control, but he was at a breaking point now.
Emily
WHY CANT THEY JUST HOOK UP
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I’ll not let you go into that!”
Emily
hes so hot and protective
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Lan trembled—actually trembled!
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AHHHHH
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“You will need someone to help you in Tanchico. Someone to keep a Taraboner street thief from slipping a knife into your back for your purse. Tanchico was that sort of city before the war began, and everything I’ve heard says it is worse now. I could … I could protect you, Nynaeve.”
Emily
OH MY GOD HES READY TO ABANDON HIS OATHS AND HONOR FOR HER AHHHH
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One moment Nynaeve was standing there, with just time to gape at the tall man sweeping toward her; the next her shoes were dangling a foot off the floor and she was being quite thoroughly kissed.
Emily
IM SCFEAMINFFBANNAJKAAKAL
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MY JAW DROPPED WHEN I HEARD THIS
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“I will not be manhandled in that fashion for the whole world to see. I will not!”
Emily
theyre so cute im sick
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
Emily
OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM
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is this too much to ask for
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“I mean him to be mine. All of him. I will not have him remembering a broken oath to Moiraine. I will not have that between us. For him, as well as myself.”
Emily
they understand eachother so well ugh i love a healthy relationship
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the contrast between the relationship here and in my book 😭
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Taringail’s youngest half-sister.
Emily
If im right that means shes like rands aunt
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Elayne was an infant when I left Caemlyn.”
Emily
Hey um quick question does that mean her dad is the guy everyone says looks like rand... Um r we getting a mortal instrument situation bc its feeling like they may be siblings
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Why can’t I just go back to Rand?
Emily
I wish the kindle had a rolling eyes emoji
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Perhaps Rand could make real use of what I can do. If he has taken the Stone … . Mother, he may need me.” At least I need him, burn me for a fool!
Emily
oh my god shut up
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“If she gives me away to Moiraine, I vow she’ll not sit down for a week.”
Emily
kinky
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But Elayne could not help feeling some similarity, between Jorin and Aviendha, anyway.
Emily
okay so the sea people and the desert ppl r def related
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She was sure she had never seen the gleeman before his appearance in the Stone, yet even then she had been struck by something familiar about him.
Emily
thats bc he fucked ur mom
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HUh?
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“I was rousted out of my house no more than half an hour gone,” he said carefully, “by a man you know, I think. A tall, stone-faced man calling himself Lan.”
Emily
AHHHH
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Before she realized what she was doing, she reached up and tugged at one of his long white mustaches.
Emily
LMAO???
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like that thing infesting the gleeman’s face.
Emily
damn nynaeve thoms mustache is like his THING
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but instead he talked to her as seriously as … . Well, as father to daughter.
Emily
okay heres how we can avoid the mortal instruments situation
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