Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“Because you are far too precious.” He stroked her hair. “Two in three Turnings end in death. That’s more than half. I will not take that risk with your life.”

Okay but how are the odds of her winning the vampire Hunger Games any better than her odds of surviving the Turn???

“This would be my wish from Nyaxia, if I won the Kejari: to become Vincent’s Coriatae. His heart-bound.”

You’re gonna become your adopted father’s what now??? 😀

“At some point, I will have to tell Zander. What will he say, knowing his queen could bring ruin to his kingdom? Is that news better received before or after the wedding ceremony?”

I- Girl 😭😭

Why is this library so marvelous… and how could I disgrace myself by forgetting about it?

“He simply couldn’t resist taking something that was mine.”
Princess Romeria’s virginity, apparently. I don’t know how much honor there is in that.

Yep, still absolutely FOUL the second time around 😀

(…) “Living in a cave with those primitive mongrels.”
“Have you met any of these Skatranans?” I didn’t think there was much travel between the countries.
“Well, no, but I’ve heard about them.”

Hypocrisy at its ~finest~

“What happens now?”
1. Kill off Adley with the confiscated poison
2. Blame it on Romeria and the Ybarisans
3. Have Zander reveal to the court that he was merely playing along and using Romy to ferret out the traitors and spies
4. Sentence Romy to death
5. Stage her escape, once again blaming Ybaris
6. Ensure safe passage back to her homeland
7. Stop a war with Romy acting as a double agent behind enemy lines

“My friend’s thoughts are weighed down by many challenges presently, one of which I’m leading into his throne room. I do not begrudge him for his miscalculation. Besides, I knew his head wasn’t clear. I should have stopped it.”

Ah, yes. I too have let my “friend” nearly hack my arm off to expel their anger

I still feel like Romeria 1.0’s attendants and guards weren’t telling the whole truth

“In Cirilea, it is considered a great honor to hold a position within the castle and the court.”
“Is that true or is that what the slavers tell themselves?”

… Points were made

“Suddenly the footfall pattern breaks with a twirl and a two-footed slide, as if its owner broke into a dance.”

Not me forgetting what a cutie Eli is

“He is not ill. His mind is simply fractured.”
“I don’t see the difference.”
She sighs. “No. The human world does not differentiate.”

“Elijah’s eyes widened, the idea of witnessing someone trampled to death lifting his spirits.”

Respectfully… mood.

I want everything from pgs 302-305 tattooed on my body

“He hadn’t wanted to return to Graves Glen until he could fix things.
Which was just . . . so annoyingly Esquire.
And now he would undoubtedly stay away, assuming she didn’t want to see him, which was also annoyingly Esquire. He’d wait for her to make the first move, a gentleman to the last.
Well.
Gwyn was good at first moves.”

“You’ve never met Gwyn Jones,” Wells said with a small smile, and Rhys laughed, leaning back.
“Ah, the sound of a man completely clobbered by love. I know the feeling well.”
Wells didn’t bother to argue. He loved her, was completely mad for her, and surely that was obvious to everyone by now.
Everyone, he suddenly realized, but the one person who mattered most.

“You two have shite to fix here,” he said, then pointed at Wells. “’Specially you.”
“St. Bugi’s balls, but I love this new world where Wells is the one everyone wants to get-it-to-fucking-gether already, and I—”
“Shut up, Rhys,” Bowen and Wells said again.

“Well,” she said, trying to joke, “good to know that my soul is still relatively untainted despite that year I went to Burning Man. Oh, and the year I cut my own bangs. Actually, all of the years 2011 to 2014.”

Those were some pretty rough years…

“I’m not feeling sorry for myself. I’m giving Gwyn some space.”
“Did she tell you, ‘I want space’? Or are you doing that thing you do where you just assume you know better than everyone all the time forever?”
“I did not miss you at all, let me just say for the record. In fact, I think you and Vivienne should take a second, much longer honeymoon. Possibly to the actual moon.”

“She was going to die all so some jacked-up witches could play at being gods while wearing dorky robes.”

Still on her nonsense even in the face of death

“My magic is not something anyone can take from me, she thought, her mind clear. It is mine. And it’s still there.
And so it was. She could feel it now, racing through her, summoned up out of her very blood, and this time, when she moved her fingers, there wasn’t just a spark.
There was a fire.”

“Remember how I said I enjoyed being a shopkeeper?” he asked. “That was a different me. A foolish me. Ever so much younger then.”

It’s not fair. How dare they all be funny?

“Oooh, erotic bribery, my favorite.”

“It’s a slippery slope from talking about your childhood to starting an Instagram that’s nothing but sunset pictures and inspirational quotes, Esquire.”

“Esquire,” he said, his little voice sleepy and fond, and Wells chuckled, leaning down to pet him.
And suddenly Gwyn knew she was in very, very deep trouble.”

You know it’s serious when the pets approve

“Wells felt right here. In her space. With her and her cat, slipping right into things like there had always been a Wells-shaped hole in her life.
And the scariest part of that was it didn’t scare her at all.”

“How long?! How long have you two been keeping an illicit love affair from us?!”
(…)
“Out. Out, you heathens.”
“Whatever, you’re not my real dad.”

Why couldn’t I be this charismatic in college 😭 (or in general)

“I’m glad Morgan’s not evil, but I gotta be honest, Esquire. I’m really disappointed Morgan’s not evil.”

“In another life, Gwyn probably would’ve made a good general, Wells thought as he followed her up to Morgan’s house. Possibly a cult leader.”

That’s the spirit :)

“Gwyn had always found it best to approach things with almost lethal amounts of confidence, and this time was no exception.”