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me listening to that one character rant about how everyone has to find a true love, being aro ace; 😃

"Sorry will neither change nor help now." Mohned's weathered voice was as soft as flipping pages. "Be patient, instead. Be kind in spite of her outward hostility. She still has a place for you in her heart."

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:0 nostalgia

he better not be two faced

“Closing her eyes, Vhalla pressed her forehead against the shut doors, as if she was locking a specter of the other woman in the wardrobe. As if she could protect herself from it entering her heart once more and consuming her soul.”

ALDRIK IS THAT YOU

vhalla in her baddie era 💅

“It would inevitably gravitate her into his orbit again, and they would both collapse in on each other like dying stars. She wasn’t ready for it.”

just thinking about their upcoming reunion 😦

There’s literally no fucking advantage to being short. Like I can’t even think of 1 💔

I hate when they dump information at the start of the book but I totally see why this is necessary 😭

ft me trying to recover what happened in the previous book to continue ☠️😭

rip chaghan):

“I don’t know what happened to you in that temple,” he said. “But you are not Fang Runin.” DAMN

nezha raban irjah and altan 3

This war makes me so frustrated and stuck😭😭

The author is so detailed she even includes the melted glass 😭

“Hating was so easy. It filled a hole inside her. It let her feel something again. It felt so good.” me too rin, me too

"She could feel him all around her; a hard edge, a deeply wounded aura, and yet a comforting presence."

"But here at the end, without a purpose and without a ruler, Altan Trengsin was broken."

"...they put us in a room with a window facing the water. I could see the constellations. Every night. I saw the star of the Phoenix and thought hat if I could just slip away, I could swim and keep swimming and find my way back home."

I KNEW IT WAS JIANG

“The Empire didn’t need someone reasonable. It needed someone mad enough to try to save it.”

THE AUTHORS WRITING UGHGHGHGH

"Altan likes to suffer in silence. Altan likes to let his hatred fester, likes to incubate it as long as he can. Now do you understand the source of his power? It is not because he is a Speerly. It is nothing genetic. Altan is so powerful because he hates so deeply and so thoroughly that it constitutes every part of his being."

"But Atlan lost everyone in his life overnight. You don't get over that kind of pain. So it's what he needs. So it's a vulnerability. I won't judge him. I don't care, because I don't have the right. And neither do you."

wow. the author did a really good job depicting the fate of opium.

",and even in the ruins of Golyn Niis, even in this city of corpses, Rin thought that the sight of Atlan then was the most terrible thing she'd ever seen." OMG WHAT. WHAT. WHATTT WHAT 😭WTF ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW? ATLAN ):

"Atlan, surely, could tell her that the Earth might keep on turning, that the sun would continue to rise and set, that the existence of such abominable evil, such disregard for human life did not mean the entire world was shrouded in darkness. Atlan, surely, could tell her they still had something worth fighting for."