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ೃ⁀➷"Life in a village like yours is simple; everything happens on the surface. In the palace, everything happens in the shadows. Someone could smile at you one moment and stab you the next."ೃ⁀➷

♡The way I love this book, only 1 chapter in.♡

... ✿°•∘ɷ∘•°✿ .."I had learned to think of time in days, the stretch between two meals, from sunup to sundown. Sometimes it felt like that was all my life was, all it could ever be: the repetition of tasks necessary for survival until I grew older and my time expired." ... ✿°•∘ɷ∘•°✿ ..

━✦❘༻༺❘✦━"It was a foreign feeling. Few ever paid much attention to me when my face was covered, and fewer still looked at me as if they could see me -- not the smooth, pretty surface of things, but the thorns that grew underneath."━✦❘༻༺❘✦━

⑅ ♥̩̥̩♥̩̩̥"The mind destroys; the heart devours."⑅ ♥̩̥̩♥̩̩̥

♥*♡∞:｡.｡"I had always enjoyed the sound of my solitude, the quiet of my own breathing. Often, when I was around other people and felt their gazes on me, I had the strange, enroaching sense that my face and body did not belong to me. As if I had been designed purely for the pleasure of their viewing."♥*♡∞:｡.｡

This book has such a cool concept, and it is already, as I can tell 3 pages in, so beautifully written.

✧༺♥༻∞"I have always found such stories to be laughably exaggerated, but they prove the same thing: that my beauty was something unnatural, transcending nature itself. And that beauty is not so different from destruction."✧༺♥༻∞

Annotating things from page 1>>>

I am crying.

⍣ ೋEverything comes full circle with Vera & Iwan. ⍣ ೋ

⋇⊶⊰❣⊱⊷⋇"Everything would run its course -- come into my life and then leave again because nothing stayed. Nothing every stayed. But things could return. ⋇⊶⊰❣⊱⊷⋇

'*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*' "That was the thing about my aunt, she lived in the moment because she always figured it'd be her last. There was never a rhyme or reason to it -- even when she was healthy, she lived like she was dying, the taste of mortality on her tongue."*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*'