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"A monster, he’d called her weeks ago. He had believed it, and allowed it to be a shield against the bitter tang of disappointment and sorrow.
He was a fool."

My heart hurts!!!

Damn, these twists are killing me!

“We can only tug so much at the leash.”
“Leashes can snap,” Asterin challenged.
“So can your neck,” Manon said.

"And when they were both finished telling their stories, when their souls were drained and grieving—but gilded with growing joy—she nestled down across from Aedion, her cousin, her friend."

This made me feel soft!

“you and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. Don’t even try to deny it.”

"You do not get to pick and choose which parts of her to love, Dorian had once said to him. He’d been right. So painfully right."

"I believe the title our esteemed friends in the empire now like
to use is ‘fire-breathing bitch-queen.’”

I'd happily take that title!

"We were from nowhere, so we wanted to rule everywhere.”

The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.

“People are attracted to power, darling. They can’t help themselves. Power seduces. Exert it, make a show of it, and they’ll follow you.”

"Air cannons boomed continuously in harmony with the drone of dirigible engines. A celestial orchestra, Rin thought, dazed. The gods were playing a dirge to their demise."

"You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal."

"Bad morale is a big weapon,... Don’t underestimate it.”

I'm making slow progress but already absolutely loving this!

“'I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice,' said she. — 'In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.'"

“The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.”

"till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of choosing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice."

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

"Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm."

I have avoided actually starting this for months as I don't want this trilogy to be over!

Fifth read for the Dewey's 24 hour readathon.

Fourth read for the Dewey's 24 hour readathon.

Third read for the Dewey's 24 hour readathon.

"There's a difference between bad and evil... Bad is when you ignore the one you love. But evil is when you know exactly what that person wants, what means most to them, and you figure out how to take it away."

"'Cause in the landscape we all live in, the outlaw can be artist. The outlaw can be entertainment. Lest he be the black-soul kind that kills for sport, the outlaw is the man men can get together o'er.

The outlaw is the man made of stories."

"The unseen threads of former lovers."

Second read for the Dewey's 24 hour readathon.

"the world was still on fire, every wave in the water a killer, every moon the shape of hysterics."

First read for the Dewey's 24 hour readathon.

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

Instant chills!