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“You were so afraid she might touch you. You were so afraid anyone might touch you. You had always been so afraid of anyone touching you, you had not known your longing flinch was so obvious to those who tried it.”

“I caught the Saint of Duty in the throes of grave lust.”

pyrrha and wake hatefucking again but using g1deon and cytherea’s dead body is only like the 2nd weirdest thing happening in the background of this book

“The meeting! The meeting!!” It was difficult to articulate extra exclamation marks, yet the new voice did so.

i know i said this last time i read this but mercymorn thank god you’re here girl i missed you so much

“You are walking down a long passage,” said the Body. “You need to turn around.”

turning the achilles and patroclus parallels into orpheus and eurydice parallels oh its sick

back at it. again.

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”

and then SHE DIDN’T!

“With Harrow there, suddenly it was easy, and her horror of the monster turned to the ferocious joy of vengeance. Long years of warfare meant that they each knew exactly where the other would stand-every arc of a sword, every jostling scapula.”

what if i kms huh what then

“I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”

lives were changed with the pool scene lets be real

its so funny that harrow knew pro was dead the entire time and instead of telling anyone she just was like “he gives off bad vibes” without any explanation😭

“In the thick dimness of the room she watched the black-garbed girl in front of her struggle around a thing that had settled over them like a net; a thing that had fused between them like a badly broken limb, shattered numerous times, healing gnarled and awful.”

“i wouldn’t have left you alone for twenty-seven hours.”
“of course not. i’d be dead.”

i need pal and cam to shut up before i begin to cry

“Oh singular, lipochrome…recessive.”

“they exchanged glances that even through one layer of veiling and one layer of tinted glass were violently hostile, but there was too much going on to stand and pull go-to-hell faces at each other.”

again, i love it when they fight

“i would have thought you would be happy that i needed you,” she admitted. “that i showed you my girlish and vulnerable heart”

“your heart is a party for five thousand nails.”

not gonna lie i love it when they fight ❤️

yeah rereading again. i love how you start this series and ur like wow tamsyn muir is such a descriptive writer and uses so many words that ive never seen before. and then you read on or read her other short stories and you realize the descriptiveness is actually just gideon’s pov….

“all i have left now is the you that i created, and it’s the best you there is…

i beseech you not to shatter it”