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NOT THE LOOFA. FURY, NO. YOU’RE BETTER THAN THIS

“I wanted him. Oh, I wanted him. Even if I was angry with him, I wanted him.
But I also knew that it wasn’t right. Roman had hurt me, and if I let Dorian have his way with me, there could be a part of me doing it for the wrong reasons. I didn’t think that was happening, but if it did, I wouldn’t forgive myself for it.”

Amen for good sense

“A small smile graced his lips in response to my acceptance of his pseudo-apology.”

Can’t say I approve of her accepting it, but at least she’s aware that it was a shitty excuse for an apology

“Jesus Christ.”
“Doesn’t exist,” I said. “He’ll be of no help here.”
He gave a deadpan look. “It’s an expression and you know it. Don’t be a condescending prick, Dorian. Basically, don’t be you.”
“Then don’t question the methods we’re using when you know nothing of which you speak,” I countered. “Now, if you are done whining, we can move on.”

I’m so over this mf

“It’s not. But you picked the name of a thirteen-year-old girl that knew a guy for five seconds, claimed she loved him, and their so-called romance caused the death of six people, and brought down two prominent houses. That’s a tragedy—the way he wrote it—not a romance,” I pointed out.

… ok. It’s getting a little creepy how similarly we think.

“Their actions said they didn't trust me, and they certainly didn’t trust each other.
Fuck them. I would do it on my own. I always did.”

Exactly. Who has time for heartbreak when there’s a world to save?

“Something festered inside me, and it felt an awful lot like human emotions.
Ew. No. There would be none of that.”

Is she just reading my diary atp?

“Big empty houses filled with sad, empty people.”

“Now he was going to tell me what he was. And that was a goddamned fucking liar.”

Ooooooooh
🫢🍿

It’s like Lyra’s trapped within her own mind

“I want her to stay too.”
“Then we would do better working with her, not against her.”

Ezra 🫡🫡🫡

“I want to get her involved in something she finds useful. She’s been gone from this world for a long time. She was important there. Respected. Good at what she did. She valued that more than you know. This may come as a shock to you, but I want her to stay here.”
(…)
“What will make her want to stay, hmm? What about you is worth sticking around for?”

Give this mf a medal

“Would you let him hurt you?” he asked.
“No.”
“Then I trust you.”

Whoa. Going from a spice scene to interrogating an accused rapist is… a lot. Talk about emotional whiplash.

“It is stale. Like it’s. . . old.”

Well… she is kinda a Zombie

“Thank you, for loving me. Even when I didn’t deserve it.”
“I know you, don’t I? Always figured you’d deserve it eventually.”

Ugh. None of us deserve our besties, honestly.

“Why are you doing this, Emmy?” she said, low and a little hoarse, nothing at all like that controlled tone she’d been using until now. “I need to know. Because it can’t be just about me—I’m not making that mistake again, especially not with you. There has to be something else here for you. Something besides us.”

Talia stays an intellectual

The way my first guess was to check Caelia’s final resting place🧍
Magically vibing with the earth is cool and all… but so is ✨logic✨

“Houses Thorn, Blackmoore, and Avramov must now compete once more, to break the tie.”

Easily could’ve avoided this if Talia had distracted Gareth during the first challenge while Rowan raced to the center of the lake… but hey, who said foresight was good for the plot?

“Places from the past are usually much smaller than you remember when you return to them years later, shocked that they’d ever managed to command so much space in your brain at all.”

“If she was going to give up the world for me, I’d better be damn well worth a sacrifice like that.”

ahah :’)
Dw Talia, I’ll give up all the worlds for you 🥰 here, take my soul too

“You want to be an ink virgin, because you’re saving yourself for your first time with that extra special someone?”
(…)
“Wait a minute, now I’m processing the implications. Does this make me an ink slut? Dermally promiscuous?”

She might be annoying but at least she’s funny

“The room filled with the smell of rain and gusting cold, but the two of us were such an inferno that the creeping chill felt like a balm. We were pure heat together, a building blaze with no known boundaries. A tangled locus of lips and hands, driving each other wild over and over again.
A fire that felt like madness, like it might never be put out.”

Take. It. Easy. With. The. Analogies.
Fuck sake.

“Even after all this time, it still feels like home.”

Poor you??? Trade places with me if you don’t like it :)

“Then you leave town,” she continued, “chop it all off, and never look back? That’s a goddess-damned declaration, Emmeline. A rebellion. Or maybe even some kind of penance only you can understand.”

Even her gran is an icon. How did she become such a disaster when these are the people she grew up with?

“This was bigger than three scorned witches and their private scores to settle. It may have started out that way, but it had grown into something larger by several scales of magnitude; something the rough size and shape of Thistle Grove itself.”

“Your father and I . . . No matter how terribly we missed you, we’d never have wanted to foist ourselves on you if the feeling wasn’t mutual.”

Even her parents are too good for her 💀

“And Lins, for what it’s worth . . . I’m so sorry that I suck.”
“You do,” she said, so vehemently that both of us cracked up, laughing against each other.

“I did the only thing I knew to do, the only thing I’d ever done when something threatened to drive a wedge between us. Even though this time, the wedge was me.”
“I reached for her.”