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"By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way does"

"Poison goes where poison's welcome"

"But you see, what he is thinking doesn't matter, because she knows who he is and what he has done, and the bad things he has done and is famous for, and as he walks toward her, uncertain, she knows him for what he is, even if he wishes he wasn't[...] and grabs him, and holds him tight as the torch drops down onto the oily wood and the flames spring up. She never takes her eyes off him and never loosens her grip..."

Gooood question

Good line, Irina

"Of course I was going to poison you!" Oh man, what a dick

It's always fun to have a distinct point in a book where you can point to a character and say "and that's where they fucked up"

"There should be a word for memories that deny themselves"

"In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."

I'm really hoping that Eudoxia is going to get more screen time

"Who're you calling an idiom?"

Oh no. Oh, Granny. Oh, Terry

Holy shit

"Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get."

Hrm.

Third wheel. Third wheel, not fifth.

Sacred apes

...oh. Oh. OH.

UNITY

Curious.

Ah. Here you are then.

NO NONONONONONONONINONONONONONONO

Holdonafuckingsecond

HERE YOU ARE YOU SONOFABITCH