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this was the most romantic reuinion i've read in a while and they ain't even a couple wtf hobb 😭😭😭

“we do not share. we are one. i am no longer a wolf, you are no longer a man. what we are together, i have no name for. see how much a man i am, that i speak of having a word for an idea? no word is needed. we exist, and we are whatever we are.”

“fitzchivalry. hero. just words. but it was as if she had lanced something inside me, drained away some poison and now i could heal.”

“death had come close enough to her to brush her with its wingtips, and she wasn't going to die as she was, a minor minstrel for a lesser noble. no, she was going to make her name, was going to witness some great event and make a song about it that would be sung down the years. then she'd be immortal, remembered as long as her song was sung.”

for a trained assassin fitz is remarkably bad at his job 😭

“this, indeed, i suddenly felt, was how a king should live. amid art and music and graciousness, elevating the lives of his people by providing a place for such things to flourish.”

this is taking me forever to get through. i think because of the similarities to shuggie it just feels like i've already read it. same story, different font kind of thing. or like watching a film/tv adaptation and then immediately reading the novel. i want to finish it, though. give it a full chance. but, yeah. not hooking me the way i was expecting it to.

stuart is a talented writer, but so far it feels like you could swap the cast of young mungo + shuggie bain and neither books would be all that different. maybe this opinion will change the further i get into the book, and i'll still probably enjoy it regardless, but yeah. a thought i had.

“no one in the world knows how to hate like a writer does. god, how i love your work and god, how i hate you because you write so well. amazing ambivalence.”

"it will take only a minute," said uncle einar's sweet wife.
"i refuse," he said. "and that takes but a second."
lmao

“and the blade went on rising, crashing, severing, with the fury and the rage of a man who has lost and lost so much that he no longer cares what he does to the world.”

“the world is evil. but laws protect us from it. and when there aren't laws, then love does the protecting.”

man just got his bones stolen 😔

“the minute you get a religion you stop thinking. believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

“in order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognise.”

“i was for better or worse the illegitimate son of the opera phantom, dracula, and the bat. my proper home was usher, my aunts and uncles descended from poe.”

"perhaps, as the fool insists, they had no choice. perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates."

let's goo ‼️

kettricken is so bad ass i love her 🛐

bruh the verity-fitz mind-meld is insane 😭😭

when u accidently make ur teenage nephew feel what it's like to fuck ur wife, just The Skill™ things 🥰😚✌️

okay so i was right, they were born to be organ donors.
but for who? and why? what's going on in the house of commons 🧐

been wanting to read this for years, and i've only ever seen people singing its praises, so—let's get started!!

me getting to read 2 chapters with barely any mention of molly: 🥰
me when the next chapter: 😐

i love the fool 🥹