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“Life in the palace was a sort of wheel, Kel thought, as he turned his steps toward the castle; it went on and on in the same rotations, cutting the same paths of habit and memory into the earth.

The fact that he had nearly died was not even a stone j the road. It mattered only to him; it had changed no one but him

In that, he was alone.”

“I shouldn't have gone. I wish I'd listened to my earlier instincts and gone home with my family. Everything would have been so different.

But, of course, you never know these things at the time. That's why life is so different to fiction.

Every day is a single page and you have no chance to thumb forward and see what lies ahead.”

“The Prince of Castellane was studying her. This was someone who held power in his hand as if it were a child's toy. There was a tangibility to such power; she felt it like the leading edge of a storm.”

“It was overwhelming, to be so loved—even if the love was not truly directed at him. Even if it was an illusion.”

Oh this is blowing me away

“I don't think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strength isn't swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it's found in quiet, gentle places.

The way you hold someone's hand as they grieve. The way you listen to others. The way you show up, day after day, even when you are weary or afraid or simply uncertain.”

Everyone pat Dustin on the back for starting a backlist thriller

“And I shouldn’t hope. I shouldn’t try to send this. I don’t even know your name.

But I think there is a magical link between you and me. A bond that not even distance can break.”

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“Iris blinked back a surge of tears.

Perhaps it was because this was the first true conversation she had had with her mother in a long time.

Perhaps it was because asters fingers were gentle coaxing memories to the surface…

But she could almost see her brother again, as if the mirror had caught a flash of him.”

It’s about damn time

How do I already love these characters so much 😩

Long overdue to start this series

“He was immortal.
And he hated it

And he hated that he hated it. Hated that he'd become the thing he never wanted to be, a burden to his brother, a source of pain and suffering, a prison.

Hated that if he'd had a choice, he would have said no. Hated that he was grateful he hadn't had a choice, because he wanted to live, even if he didnt deserve to.”

"I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking after one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stairs divide you.”

“Kell opened his eyes. Part of him—a weary, grieving part— simply wanted to go home. But the rest of him wanted to get out of this blasted castle, go someplace where he wouldn't be a royal messenger or an Antari, a prisoner or a prince, and wander the streets of Grey London until he became simply a shadow, one of thousands.”

“You lied to me, didn’t you? You said you didn’t know anything about my future.”

Malshash didn’t deny it… He faced Davian looking him in the eye.

“If I tell you this— I tell you everything. And that’s not safe for either of us. The only secrets a mind cannot give up are those it doesn’t know. “

This is blowing my mind

Book #2 and starting this felt like coming home 🥹

“She laughs and tucks her head against my shoulder. "I just want to be here with you, Har."

It's that happy-sad feeling, that intense homesick ache. The feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing.”

Emily Henry can do no wrong

Ok I’m obsessed w her writing

“They had been through hell. They had the scars to prove they had made it through the worst years of their lives.

But only survivors have scars in the first place.”

Ok Stacy I’m ready