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“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?” -GLORIA ALLRED

“With haste, Nadheera,” he beckons.

"I’m hasting."

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“You just slapped me with your wing."

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“You and I are damned to walk the path that Fate has carved for us. I am not your enemy, I am your consort in this preordained quest.”

“Is that why you’re doing this then? You’re helping me escape because Fate promised you a reward?”

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“I wasn’t speeding, officer!”

“The daughter must pay for the sins of her father..."

I swear, things always get the most exciting when I'm forced to put my book down. 😂😭

"My spirit for vengeance is a caged bear fighting to be let out."

This book - chills, tears, broke me and remade me. If you had a childhood full of abandonment/neglect, and enjoy dark, spicy, fantasy romance - I think you'll love this.

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"You have made yourself into my monster, into a monster for the women of Lunameade. You deserve someone who will be a monster for you.”

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“Consent matters.”

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"I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”

“When a community is built on removing access to information—from disempowering its people—there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises."

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“Does this face say, ‘I’m sad my husband died, but I’m glad I found someone new to marry me and give me value according to our flawed societal ideals for women’?”

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“You made a vow. Now follow through or learn to dread me with the rest of them.”

“Just because you can bear your pain better doesn’t mean you should have to."

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"The only thing more dangerous than a man w/a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle."

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"Not admitting it doesn’t make it untrue. It only makes your inability to recognize your own feelings a liability.”

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"At least in the woods, the Drained are straightforward about being out for blood."

"Born to be a queen. Cursed to wrangle the egos of men.”

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"It’s not just some quick affection. This is a kiss I feel everywhere—a benediction that cleanses me of everything that came before and turns me into someone new."

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"So you're enjoying the honeymoon period?"

"I'm fantasizing about creative ways to kill him."

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"My wolf, what a truly unpleasant surprise. How did you know where to find me?"

"No one thinks they will break until they meet the thing that shatters them."

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“I really shouldn’t talk about it out in the open, but I have a room upstairs for the night.A little privacy would surely loosen my lips.”

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“It’s just a story...They remind us we have survived and endured enough to find pleasure."
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“I’m sorry that you have to face the possibility that your wife might have some redeeming qualities."

“No one calls it violent when a man lays hands on his wife. They call it none of their business. But the moment a woman fights back—that’s violence.”

"...when justice is dealt out by the powerful, is it ever really justice?”

"Don't you look broody," I tease.

His gaze rakes over me, and it’s like I can feel his hands on my skin again. “And you look like murder wrapped in sin.”

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So far, loving this book

"This world is plagued with men who only know how to speak with their fists, and I have made myself a monster for them."

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"It used to make me feel powerful—that I could hide such wretched agony from the world. Now it just makes me feel lonely."

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"I don’t dream of being wanted anymore. I’d rather be feared."

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“Is this a regular thing for you? Just a normal night out with a side of murder?”

“Why should I fade it? So everyone else can feel comfortable?”

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"There's freedom in being a disappointment."

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"That’s what happens when men act up. They don’t get punished. They get rewarded with a place of honor..."

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"I cannot make him sorry, but I can make him suffer. And that will have to be enough."

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"They all murmur about being loved, but they really mean being wanted."

“It is curious, isn’t it, how easily we accept the explanations we’ve been given?"

"I did not blame any of the others for their choices, no more than I blamed myself. But . . . a private part of me mourned for them, for us. For the friendships we might have had, had society not forced us into the role of enemies."

"With fewer Weavers than silkwitches, and our futures entirely dependent on securing a husband, we would always be like foxes in a trap, chewing off our legs for a chance at safety."

"How many times had a silkwitch like me been elevated according to a Weaver’s fickle desires, then brought down when he tired of her?"
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YA Regency Era fantasy/murder mystery, who done it - I'm loving this book so freaking much! The symbolism in the women's hair being the conduit for male sorcerer's magic - truly, chef's kiss. The mystery part is so well done. The trials in the competition are fun and innovative.

"“Weavers are wolves, Miss Lovett. They act only to feed themselves and their kin. It would be a mistake to confuse one for a docile creature, just because it has deigned to let you pet it.”

"Perhaps, I decided, it was more the sensation of the loss which had unsettled me: as if a piece of myself had been stolen away and now called for me from some distant place I couldn’t reach. Like I belonged to people I did not know."

"The majority of girls like you hardly even touch their hair before marriage— I have heard of some who refuse to brush it at all, so afraid are they of losing any strands that might otherwise be used to bolster their dower.”

"We could be stolen, of course, we could be lured, but a silkwitch given freely in marriage . . . Well, did one consider the safety of a string of pearls, when passing it off to a happy customer? It had been bought. It was a belonging— it belonged."

L: "If you're going to arrest me, I would prefer you get on with it."

G: "I am not going to arrest you. I simply wish to get to know you."

L: "You seem to know a great deal about me already."

G: "Aren't you going to finish that thought, 'And yet I, almost nothing about you'?"

L: "Excuse me, sir, I seem to have forgotten my line. Perhaps if you were to hand me a script..."

G: Amused snort "Clever."

"Until the day we wed, our power was as remote to us as an underground spring; our duty lay in keeping it pure, safeguarding it for our future husbands’ use, but never did we drink from it ourselves."

I'm loving what Gregovic is putting down here.

"No man wanted what swam on his level."
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Off to a great start

"I wish him nothing short of great love, for no other weapon can assure equitable agony." —unknown Balmoorish general, speaking of his opponent
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"He was inarguably, undoubtedly, obviously beautiful, and I was surprised when, upon taking him in, I felt a flush stirring in my cheeks— a whisper of heat."
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"A lure was more tempting if the target of one’s hunt felt they had to reach up to grasp it, after all."

Me IRL: “Hear, hear!” shouted Ferdinand. “I don’t know what the hell anyone is talking about, but I agree with Carl!”

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Real life really needs to stop interrupting my reading time, cause leaving off right here is brutal.

The chaos just keeps on getting more chaotic and I am here for it.

Cascadia laughed. It had a hint of madness to it. “Well, why not? Why the fuck not?”

I'm with Donut and Ferdinand in regards to how a certain king looks in his crown. 😂

I miss them going on talk shows, though. So many funny lines during those. But the other meetings kinda fill that spot.

"And from what the history of our predecessors teaches us, Emperor and High Priestess are destined to love each other, to create a bond so deep that it defies the laws of time and death. To find each other again and again."

'Jamal feels as if you’re trying to reverse-psychologicalize him. It will not work. Jamal is much too quick-witted for such tricks. I was once one of the most feared warriors of all the seas.'


'I still don’t understand why they can have these things, but we can’t.'


'For the Posse!'


'Fu¢k the cheese sticks!'


'Break them all.'


'She's very trusting for a backstabbing bit¢h.'