Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“I think some people just want to belong so badly that they pick sides, even if it doesn’t mean anything.”
“So whose side are you on?” I asked her.
She rested her cheek on my shoulder. “Yours,” she said.

“I feel that weird detached feeling that comes from too little sleep and not enough food. Or maybe from killing a man.”

“I press my thumb against the fruit and it yields slightly. That’s how you know something is ready to be devoured, when it gives just a little under pressure. It’s the same with people.”

“I’ve got fans.” Again, that matter-of-fact tenor like she was trying to convince herself.
“You do. Lots of them.”
“And I’ve got a fine-as-hell boyfriend who’s my assistant for the day.”
“I’m actually your assistant for life.”

Mateooooooooo

“I’m unhurt. But he’ll need medical attention. Let’s get the hell out of here.”

Didn’t she get scratched tf up?? Ya know what… nvm

“Are you okay?”
“I laughed, refusing to cry, because what could I say. No! I’m not okay. I was an emotional wreck, but I was also home. Right where I belonged.”

“Mateo,” I choked out.
“Yes?”
“You’re my fucking hero.”
“No.” He let out a self-deprecating kind of laugh. “I’m your slave.”

Kill me. Like actually. My heart can’t take this.

“Your girlfriend?” Her sweet eyes lit up, and there went that tumbling of butterflies in my stomach again. I swear, the girl made me feel like a heartsick teenager. “I thought I was your best friend.”
“You’re both.”

I rest my case.

“Talk to me. I’m your friend, remember?”
“My friend?”
“Your best friend.”

lovers who are also besties are top tier. Change my mind.

“It’s only been three days.”
His expression grave, he edged closer and said quietly, “It’s been an eternity.”

I want one

“I love haunted houses.”

Wait. Let me get my popcorn. And maybe some bear spray.

“We’re friends?”
“Of course, we are, you idiot.”
“Friends.” I backed up and released the door, grinning like a, well, an idiot. “Awesome.”

He’s so cute omfg

“It was like his comments about my pitiful attempt at being an artist had stabbed holes in my sails, and I couldn’t make myself venture out into open water just in case he was right and I’d end up sinking and drowning.”

“Willem Rathborne had controlled every single element of her life since the moment she’d been born. She had so few people truly on her side and had never even known it. She’d been such a fool.”

fuck narcissists :)

“It was nothing serious, after all—just a stolen evening in the library and the whisper of something that might have been in another life. Let him keep his feelings. She didn’t want them.”

~angsty~

“I’m not kissing you in front of your wolf. I’m afraid that’s where I draw the line.”
“So, there is a line.”
“I’m as surprised as you are.”

3/3 banter. Things are looking up.

“It was preposterous for her sister to think she would still be Queen. That she was even fit for it in the first place.”

Why can’t y’all rule together, again?
Also, bite me.

(…) “if Rose knew about anything, it was diplomacy.”

… if u say so

“Today is merely a reprieve, Shen.”
He laughed softly, and she felt the rumble of it in her bones. “I thought you said yesterday was a reprieve.”
“And so it was. Forever starts again tomorrow.”
“Until tomorrow, then,” said Shen, taking a long swig. “And all the days after that.”

“Rose knew that there was just as much strength in mercy.”

Do you, now? And when did u adopt that philosophy?

“We were driven out of our own country, forced to live in the frigid corners of Eana, with nothing but the memory of what we once were to keep us warm. To keep us fighting.”

*cough* pilgrims *cough*

“No. . . .” Rose chose her words carefully. “But I think that kind of punishment could be considered monstrous”

Where was this energy when the Kingsbreath was hanging speculated witches from the vault?

“The best way to kill a memory is to stop speaking it aloud.”

“That’s treason!“

So is killing your King and Queen?

“I have to save the witches from the Kingsbreath.”
“And you really think wrecking Rose’s marriage and stealing her crown are the only way to do that?”

They’re twins. Aren’t they both equally eligible for the crown? A crown that we now know Rose never would’ve inherited anyway?

(…) “it certainly does not explain why our island is shaped like a bird.”

Well, I’ll be damned

“And the others—the ones who had stood by and watched, the witches who would sooner see her suffocate than lift a hand to help her. But one day—and that day would come soon—Rose would no longer be alone, and with the power of the crown of Eana on her head and the might of its army at her back, she would return to them as their ruler. And they would bow to her.”

Way to miss the point, colonizer—I mean, Rose.

“Celeste was fearless like that, not afraid of the fall but of what she might miss at the top.”

“You mistake training for loyalty, Your Highness.”

Tor is lowkey giving Chaol 2.0

“You are the thing I am meant to fear the most.”
“You are the thing you fear the most.” His face softened. “And are you really so scary?”