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What did I just read? like for real what just happened? and it's not even the final chapter, how did you all read and survive reading this? make it make sense

I've never needed to both stop, as well as continue, a book as right this moment.

Are you trying to destroy me with chapter 39? if so it's working

"You don't think this is foolish do you?..."

"it only makes this all the more beautiful. The two of you have found each other against great odds."

"you are worthy of love. You are worthy to feel joy right now, even in the darkness. And just in case you were wondering... I'm not going anywhere, unless you tell me to leave, and even then, we might need to negotiate"

"Are you saying what I think you're saying?"
"Yes"
"Let's work together"

Why is this the moment I start to bawl my eyes out?

"Tell me more?"
"More?"
"If I tell you anything else today, you'll grow tired of me"
"Impossible"

"I am coming to love him, in two different ways. Face to face, and word for word."

"I'm just furious mortified upset seething afraid."

"I am so afraid. And yet how I long to be vulnerable and brave when it comes to my own heart."

"You"
"Me"

🥺

"Don't leave"
"You and I... we need to stay together. We're better this way"

"he didn't want to live in a world without her and her words"

"It's good to see you again too, Winnow" 🫠

So.. started off with a very cringy tampon scene, and now she literally took the man's toothbrush and put it in the toilet...

like... WHY

marriage of convince hehehe

So this is a full-on "war" book then... not sure how I feel about that...

"I paid for him to have a subscription, so the 'Inkridden Tribune' will start showing up on his doorstep, and he'll see my name in print and eat his words"

I feel like Attie is my spirit animal

Why do I keep thinking about the wardrobes in Harry Potter from that creepy store? who knows what I'm talking about?

"You still didn't answer why I should send you, Iris Winnow"

"Because I want to write about things that matter. I want my words to be like a line, cast out into the darkness".

"She had never heard him say her given name. it seeped through her like sunlight, warming her skin and her blood, and she had to glace away from him before he saw how mush it affected her"

"But I realize that people are just people and they carry their own set of fears, dreams, desires, pains, and mistakes. I can't expect someone else to make me feel complete; I must find it on my own."

"It feels like wearing shoes that are too small"
"With every step, you notice it. It feels like blisters on your heels. It feels like a lump of ice in your chest that never melts, and you can only sleep a few hours at a time because you're always wondering where they are and those worries seep into your dreams. If they are alive, or wounded, or sick. Just so you can have the peace of knowing their fate"
💔

"you are 19... but you have an old soul don't you?"
he only laughed
"I take it that I'm correct"
Iris said resisting the temptation to laugh with him because, of course, he'd have one of those laughs, the ones you could not hear and not feel in your chest"

"but little did he know, what her music would do, once it was strung deep in the earth"

"it was as if someone wanted to steal the knowledge of the past"

Yes, you saw that right, I am reading this for the first time 10 days before the 2nd comes out (this was very deliberate and I'm so scared)

This is very crafts info heavy, it was cute at first but I'm losing interest

Awwww

"Tell me what I can do to help?"

love this clear communication

So excited about Lianne's story!