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“The ways in which I am my mother’s daughter are infinite.”

“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear,”

“This wasn’t the first time, and wouldn’t be the last, that my mother would experience physical violence in her own home. Over time I think she came to expect it, or perhaps, to believe she even deserved it”.

“You can’t honestly think no one knows about the sessiz suikast?”
Talking like she’s the kwisatz haderach. Paul Atredies they are trying to steal your nachos!

The last line of part 1… got me fucking gagging omg

“Most of the tributes went nuts, but not Wiress.” Oh Suzanne thinks she’s funny huh?

“That’s when she revealed that he’d been together with the fellow in town who replaces busted windows. They have to keep it quiet because loving differently can get you harassed by the peacekeepers”
Lenore Dove gay dad reveal!
Also not there’s homophobia in Panem!

“They’re not blood kin, her being a Baird” ouhhhhh BITCH I’m locked in

“The air rushed from her lungs in a breath she hadn’t realised she’d been holding.”
Are all the editors on strike? Why in god’s name is this a sentence that is still being written in books… pack it in!!!

I’ve found this book sooo boring but I just sat up in my seat and locked in. Shame it took 547 pages for that to happen though.

Did Sarah J Maas realise that by making Aedion and Celeana cousins… she has also made Dorian and Celeana related… as in the guy she was trying to fuck on five minutes ago…

“Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.”

“She told me once that when I was born she could feel my heartbeat leaving her and for a moment there was such a terrible emptiness inside she said she knew what it must feel like to die. Why is it one of us is always leaving or just coming back to say good-bye?”

“I was astonished to be accosted by men, could they not see him silhouetted inside my own body?”

“Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”