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“Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”
This is actually so fucking disgusting
He stares down at me. “See how you look at me. Fuck. I understand why they do it.” “Who does what?” “The Fae. Turn women Pri-ya.”
He's a rapist dawg I'm so fucking livid
I would not be lulled into stupidity again, into believing something that wasn’t true, so it could be used against me.
We'll see
He could have stopped in his efforts to restore my mind halfway through, left me hanging in a mentally impaired yet functional Pri-ya state indefinitely, and I’d have done anything he’d asked, to keep getting sex. I’d have traipsed all over the world, hunting the Dark Book, slave to his every command. But he hadn’t. He’d brought me all the way back. Freed me.
"He could've kept me as a sex slave but he didn't <3" the bar is in hell
I was now immune to death-by-sex Fae. I could walk through wards. I was more powerful in ways that could have been accomplished only by putting me through something that would either kill me or make me stronger. A proving ground: die or evolve.
All it took was getting raped, truly incredible writing on display here
IFPs: Interdimensional Fairy Potholes
I never want to see an abbreviation again
most of my friends hadn’t had a daddy like mine, who said things like, Don’t confuse intensity of emotion with quality of emotion, baby, when I’d gotten tangled up with class heartbreaker Tommy Ralston. The more he’d hit on my girlfriends, the harder I’d worked to keep him. It was like I was addicted to whatever made me feel most intensely, even though it was hurting me. Pain is not love, Mac. Love makes you feel good.
Gonna write all this out while the endgame guy has been a massive asshole all series, sure
“I had no awareness. No choice.” I searched for words to drive my point home. “It was every bit as much rape as what the Unseelie Princes did to me.”
This is literally TRUE and I'm sure I'm about to see some twisted mental gymnastics from Barrons (and the author) to make him into The Good Guy
“Rape isn’t something—” “You walk away from,” I cut him off. “I know. I get it now. Okay?” “You crawl. You were crawling when I found you.” “Your point?” “You walked away from me. Stronger for it.”
Lmfao next paragraph I'm fucking disgusted
I had an inch of blond roots that made me look like a skunk. Loot store for hair dye and manicure kit.
A third of the global population has been wiped out but sure this is important too
“You’re better than that, Mac.” “Better than what?” I said coolly. “Lashing out because you hurt. He’s not the one who hurt you. He’s the one who brought you back.”
Am I taking crazy pills
My hair was jet and a little wild. I’d moussed it and let it do what it wanted. My lipstick was red and glossy and matched my nails. I was wearing black leather from head to toe,
You have time to do all this in the apocalypse?
Like some stupid fecking stupid fecker that shouldn’t have even been fecking born!”
I don't think any Irish person swears like this
“She’s thirteen.” “Time will remedy that.”
If this is Dani's eventual love interest I'm actually going joker mode
Just when I thought I’d finally become a halfway decent power on the board, traded my pawn in for a rook or a knight, some king or queen came along to remind me how ineffectual I was.
Not a great chess analogy maybe scratch king
He’d been cast naked, unarmed, and without human currency into the middle of Manhattan, in a subway station. He’d barely survived those first few minutes, had been attacked by a group of mocking, cruel humans wearing leather and chains, sporting shaved heads and hammering fists.
This is so unbelievable it's offensive
“One would think you’d have gotten all the Fae shoved in your mouth you could stand, Ms. Lane.”
I hope this series ends with him dying
For a woman who was gang-raped recently, you certainly seem blasé.”
He is constantly making jokes about her literal rape am I going fucking insane
“Did he bother pointing out that everything the king had done, he’d done for her? Did she think of that before she decided to kill herself? Did it ever occur to her that sometimes a willingness to turn dark for someone else might just be a fucking virtue?”
Boo fucking hoo
“‘Trite’ is merely another word for overdone by the media to the point where the common masses—that would be you, Ms. Lane: common—are desensitized by it, most often to their own detriment because they have become incapable of recognizing the danger staring at them from the eyes of a feral animal or down the barrel of a loaded gun.”
This is about listening to Rob Zombie
Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way!”
Oh yeah sure, women can't have sex without falling in love
I heated a cup of water in the microwave behind the counter and added three heaping teaspoons of instant coffee.
Bro this is Ireland I know you have a kettle
He was the one who’d taught me that the heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal’s
How come Mac has all these memories of wisdom imparted by her Dad but not a single quote from her mother all series? ARE women people? Or do they only exist to have things happen to them?
Once I was there, it lunged at me and herded me with snapping jaws into the center of the bank. Then, as I watched in shock and astonishment, it urinated a circle all the way around me.
Best part of this entire book
I’d been walking the corridors of a mansion that housed infinite rooms. Unlike my cold-place dreams, I’d been warm there. I’d loved the mansion, with its endless terraces overlooking gardens filled with gentle creatures.
Oh jesus fucking christ are you being so for real right now
I could feel its rage. It rejoiced in the kill. It reveled in it, soaked itself in blood, crushed bones beneath its taloned feet.
Who wants to bet this is some split off manifestation of Barrons' soul or something
it speeded up
SPEEDED?
