Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“It doesn’t make her feelings your responsibility, because like you said, adults. But it does mean you should at least be cognizant of where she’s coming from.”

Lin is too good for Emmy

“I think they just want to be seen by someone. To be touched. You know, pretty much the same things everyone wants, even while alive.”

“I hesitated for a moment longer, before deciding that, hey, at least I’d be plunging back into the woods more or less with one of the creatures that went bump in the night. Shit, that had to count for something.”

“We like to inhabit a space of . . . creative anarchy, that’s all,” Talia said, unoffended.

Just marry me 😩

“Unless he’d gone sniveling to Grammy about how mean and unfair this whole setup was, playing the victim yet again.”

Or maybe she’s sus about that dance u and Talia shared… but go off

“Then it zoomed straight up like the prettiest-ever UFO, glow intensifying as it lifted, its radiance eliciting a chorus of gasps from combatants and spectators alike.”

Describe it to death, why don’t you

“But maybe . . . maybe I’ve learned a thing or two since then,” she said, eyes shifting between mine. “Maybe I’m not such a bad decision anymore.”

Do I smell an unrequited crush backstory?

“The honor of a Girl Scout, and the twisted mind of a Targaryen.” Talia shuddered in mock ecstasy, grinning. “I’m perilously close to liking you, Harlow.”

Tf is Emmy’s problem with Delilah?? Bitterness is not a cute look, sis

“There are much worse things than documenting this town’s history, scoot. Being its voice, its quiet champion.”

“I have made the occasional late-night Chili’s run in my misspent youth, yes, before I came to know better. It’s called personal growth.”
“Never heard of it.”

I love her, your honor

“Where does one even begin, when all options inspire equal fear?”

Am I laughing bc it’s funny or bc it’s the story of my life

“Given the role the Harlows actually played in the founding of the town.”

It’s giving The Ex Hex

“We’ll get matching canes when it’s hard to walk,” he told her.
“No swords in them.” Mariel’s lips curved against his shirt. “Or wait, maybe I do want a sword.”
“Definitely a sword.” Themmie nodded. “Terrorize the old folks’ home.”
Mariel wiped her eyes and sat up straight. “It’ll be an adventure,” she said. “And I can’t wait.”

At least we ended strong

“Now, instead of watching her age while he stayed healthy and strong, he would get to go on the journey of life with her.”
(…)
“No more bargaining; no more cold, unfeeling, unending existence. Instead, a messy human life, lived fully from top to bottom. Lived alongside the person who meant the most to him.”

Sorry,” she repeated. “For all of it. Ignoring your gardening and pushing you too hard. You’re right, I didn’t pay attention to the things you loved or were good at.”

IT WAS THAT EASY??

“Mariel’s display was by far the most beautiful—he’d done the rounds, wondering if there were any competitors he needed to take out—and her enthusiasm was contagious.”

Now THIS is romance

“Never underestimate a witch with a mean right hook and anger-management issues.”

Damn straight 😌

“She was the source and the meaning of everything. A life without her wasn’t worth living.”

“Have mortals forgotten respect?”
“Yes,” Oz said. “And honestly? Good for them.”

Authority can suck it :)

“I offered him the best of everything. The best training, the best accommodations, the best position he could dream of in demon society.”
The words rankled; they made her think of her parents. The best of everything, but none of what a child actually needed.

Oop-

“That was how Ozroth found himself bundled into a sling fashioned from stolen potato sacks, dangling below a technicolor pixie as they flew towards the forest and the woman Ozroth loved more than anything.”

So maybe this was worth reading, after all.
pFF-

We rlly need to talk about Oz’s self-harm tendencies

“I’m tired of being good. I’d rather do what’s right.”

Period.

Isn’t Oz’s lightning blue??

“Plants gave of themselves so freely, so selflessly, even though people trampled them or plucked them or chopped them down to make way for buildings.
Mariel had wanted to give herself that freely, too. To present her beating heart to someone and, for once, have them honor and guard it.”

Is Oz gonna bargain away is own soul 🫠

“Mariel had just never expected her heart to be the weapon wielded against her.”

“The woods are being poisoned, but not by human magic.” Alzapraz pointed a quivering finger at Oz. “By demon magic.”

Yeah. Astaroth’s.

“My relationship is my business. My uterus is my business. So please stop acting as if you own me.”
(…)
“Love is supporting someone,” she said. “Lifting them up, not tearing them down. Loving them as they are, not how you want them to be.”

Finallyyyy